1450s in architecture
Events
- 1452 – Leon Battista Alberti completes writing De Re Aedificatoria
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- 1450
- Reconstruction of Sforza Castle in Milan as a palace begun
- Tomb of Ahi Evren in Kırşehir, Anatolia, is begun
- 1451–1457 – Villa Medici in Fiesole, Tuscany, designed by Michelozzo or Leon Battista Alberti, built
- c. 1451
- Palazzo Rucellai in Florence, probably designed by Leon Battista Alberti and executed, at least in part, by Bernardo Rossellino, substantially completed
- Earliest date for start of construction of Jahaz Mahal in the Delhi Sultanate
- 1452 – Hospices de Beaune in France, probably designed by Jacques Wiscrère, opened
- 1456 – Ospedale Maggiore in Milan begun by Filarete.
- 1457 – Edo Castle in Japan first fortified by Ōta Dōkan
- 1458 – Pitti Palace in Florence begun by Bartolommeo Ammanati and perhaps Brunelleschi
- 1459 – Sixty Dome Mosque (Shaṭ Gombuj Moshjid) in Khalifatabad (modern-day Bagerhat District of Bangladesh) completed
- Approximate date – Palazzo Pisani Moretta on the Grand Canal (Venice) built
Births
- 1450: Bartolomeo Montagna, Italian painter and architect (died 1523)
- 1452: April 15 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath (died 1519)
- c. 1456: Bramantino, born Bartolomeo Suardi, Milanese painter and architect (died c. 1530)
Deaths
- 1459: c. October 25 – Khan Jahan Ali, Muslim Sufi saint, local ruler and architectural patron