 Text search
 Related images
 HistoryWorld
 Link
 Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms. |
|  |
| | | | | | | |
|
| 1609 |
| | | The Blue Mosque, commissioned by Ahmed I, begins to rise in Istanbul like a twin to the nearby Santa Sophia | |
| |
|
| 1618 |
| | | The Teatro Farnese in Parma is the first to have a proscenium arch, framing perspective scenery painted on flat wings | |
| |
|
| 1629 |
| | | The sculptor and architect Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini is given the task of adding the drama of baroque to the newly completed St Peter's in Rome | |
|  | Bernini's Baldacchino in St Peter's
Fotofile CG
|
|
|
| 1632 |
| | | Shah Jahan begins building the Taj Mahal as a memorial for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal | |
|  | Taj Mahal
Fotofile CG
|
|
|
| 1634 |
| | | Francesco Borromini begins work on his intricate baroque masterpiece, the Monastery of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (1634-43), in Rome | |
| |
|
| 1664 |
| | | Louis XIV commissions a well-established team of designers to provide him with a spectacular palace and garden at Versailles | |
| |
|
| 1667 |
| | | Bernini's great curving colonnade is completed, to form the piazza in front of St Peter's | |
| |
|
| c. 1670 |
| | | The Dutch develop a new pattern of middle-class urban life and architecture, later copied in England | |
|  | Amsterdam
Fotofile CG
|
|
|
| 1673 |
| | | The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb begins building the great Badshahi Mosque in Lahore | |
|  | Lahore, Badshahi Mosque
Fotofile CG
|
|
|
| c. 1675 |
| | | The double-hung sash window is introduced in England and soon spreads to Holland | |
| |
|
| | | | | |
| |