1650s in architecture

1650s in architecture

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Buildings

* 1650 - The Marian column in Prague erected. (Destroyed 1918)
* 1653 - The Taj Mahal (begun in 1630) is completed.
* 1653 - The Radziwill Palace in Vilnius is completed.
* 1656 - The Colonnade of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is started by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Births

* May 23, 1654 - Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (died 1728)
* July 20, 1656 - Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (died 1723)

Deaths

* June 21, 1652 - Inigo Jones (born 1573)


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