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Buildings and structures

Buildings

1580 – Old City of Zamość, designed by Bernardo Morando, is established in Poland.
1580–1588 – Wollaton Hall near Nottingham in England, probably designed by Robert Smythson, is built.
1581
- Uffizi in Florence, designed by Giorgio Vasari and continued by Alfonso Parigi the Elder and Bernardo Buontalenti, is completed.
- Litomyšl Castle in Bohemia, begun in 1568, is completed.
c. 1582 – Dome and lantern of the church of Santa Maria di Loreto, Rome, completed by Giacomo del Duca.
1583
- Allahabad Fort, built by Emperor Akbar, is completed.
- Quirinal Palace in Rome, designed by Carlo Maderno and Domenico Fontana, is begun.
- New Basilica of Our Lady of Humility, Pistoia, Tuscany, is consecrated.^[1]

1584
- El Escorial palace at San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain (begun 1563), designed by Juan de Herrera, is completed.
- Church of the Gesù in Rome, designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola in 1568 and completed by Giacomo della Porta with "the first truly baroque façade", is consecrated.^[2]
1585 – Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, designed by Palladio, and completed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is opened.
1585 – Neubau in Strasbourg, begun in 1582, is inaugurated.
1586 – Golden Tea Room first recorded in use in Japan.
1587–1588 – Fort Al Jalali at Muscat, Oman, is built by Portuguese naval captain Belchior Calaça.
1588
- Court theatre at Sabbioneta, designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is begun (completed 1590.)
- Roselius-Haus in Bremen is completed.
- Villa Barbarigo, Noventa Vicentina is commissioned.

Publications

1584 – Gian Paolo Lomazzo produces his treatise Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scoltura et architettura.

Births

1585 – Pietro Paolo Floriani, Italian architect and engineer (died 1638)
1586–1587 – Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (died 1647)
1587
- Fabio Mangone, Italian architect (died 1629)
- Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger, Flemish/Danish architect (died 1639)

Deaths

1580: August 19 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (born 1508)
1583: October 30 – Pirro Ligorio, Italian architect, painter, antiquarian and garden designer (born 1510)
1588: July 17 – Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect (born 1489)

References

↑ "Our Lady of Humility Basilica". Pistoia: Santuario Basilica Madonna dell'Umiltà. 2005. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
↑ Whitman, Nathan T. (1970). "Roman Tradition and the Aedicular Façade" (PDF). Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians . 29 (2): 108–123. doi:10.2307/988645.

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[1] "Our Lady of Humility Basilica". Pistoia: Santuario Basilica Madonna dell'Umiltà. 2005. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-03-18.

[2] Whitman, Nathan T. (1970). "Roman Tradition and the Aedicular Façade" (PDF). Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians . 29 (2): 108–123. doi:10.2307/988645.

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