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1720 in architecture
The year
1720 in architecture
involved some significant events.
Events
First
Prix de Rome
in architecture awarded in France to
Antoine Derizet
.
Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù
converted into a theatre.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
Massachusetts Hall (Harvard University)
is completed.
Rebuilding of
All Saints Church, Oxford
(in
The High
) is completed to designs by
Henry Aldrich
with tower and spire probably by
Nicholas Hawksmoor
.
213 and 215 King's Road
,
Chelsea, London
.
Baroque
remodelling of the
Church of the Teutonic Order, Vienna
, probably by
Anton Erhard Martinelli
.
Church of the Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple in Bârsana
,
Romania
(one of the
wooden churches of MaramureÃÂ
).
Replacement wooden
Holy Trinity Church, Zhovkva
,
Ukraine
.
Schloss Bruchsal
in Baden is commissioned from Anselm von Grünstein.
Births
March 22 –
Nicolas-Henri Jardin
, French architect (d.
1799
)
October 4 –
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
, Italian etcher of architectural views (d.
1778
)
November 30 –
André Soares
, Portuguese sculptor and architect (d.
1769
)
Deaths
References