1460s in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• 1460
• * Palazzo Medici in Florence, designed by Michelozzo, is completed.
• * Porto Magna in Venetian Arsenal, perhaps built by Antonio Gambello from a design by Jacopo Bellini is constructed, the first neoclassical building in Venice.
• 1462 – Reconstruction of Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Mantua in Lombardy by Leon Battista Alberti begins.
• 1463–67 – Fatih Mosque, Istanbul, designed by Atik Sinan, is constructed.
• 1464 – Neemrana fort in India is begun.
• 1466 – Ockwells Manor in Berkshire, England, is completed.
• 1466–67 – Neubrügg covered wooden bridge over the Aare between Bern and Kirchlindach is erected.
• 1467 – Wongaksa Pagoda, Seoul, Korea, is built.
• 1468 – Rebuilding of the Palazzo Ducale, Urbino, begun by Luciano Laurana.
• 1469 – Kasımiye Medrese in Mardin, Turkey, begun before 1407, is completed.

  Events

• 1461: November 26 – 1461 L'Aquila earthquake in Italy; dome of Santa Maria di Collemaggio collapses for the first time.
• c.1464 – Filarete completes his Libro architettonico, a treatise on architecture and the ideal city of Sforzinda.

  Births

• c.1460
• * Benedetto Briosco, Italian sculptor and architect active in Lombardy
• * Marco Palmezzano, Italian painter and architect
• * Cristoforo Solari, Italian sculptor and architect
• * John Wastell, English architect and master mason
• * Bernardo Zenale, Italian painter and architect

  Deaths

• 1464 – Bernardo Rossellino, Florentine sculptor and architect
• 1466: December 13 – Donatello, Florentine sculptor
• c.1469 – Filarete, Florentine architect