1690s in architecture

1690s in architecture

Buildings

* 1690 - The Sindone Chapel in Turin, designed by Guarino Guarini is completed.
* 1699 - Castle Howard (completed 1712), designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor, is begun.
* 1690-1700 - two Baroque palaces in Vilnius, Sapieha Palace and Slushko Palace, designed by Pietro Perti, have been erected.
* 1695-1699 - Craigiehall, near Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by Sir William Bruce

Events

* 1696 - The window tax is introduced in Great Britain.

Births

* 1690 - Richard Cassels (died 1751)
* 1691 - James Burrough (died 1764)
* June 17, 1691 - Giovanni Paolo Pannini (died 1765)
* 13 September 1693 - Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach born in Vienna (died 1742)
* April 25, 1694 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (died 1753)
* 1695 - Roger Morris - (died 1749)
* 1698 - October 23 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel (died 1782)
* 1699 - Edward Lovett Pearce (died 1733)
* 1699 - Matthew Brettingham the Elder (died 1769)

Deaths

* February 8, 1691 - Carlo Rainaldi (born 1611)


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