1500s in architecture
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- c. 1500 – Chateau de Blois largely rebuilt.
- 1500 – St. Anne's Church, Vilnius is completed.
- 1501
- Expansion of Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh.
- Chichester Cross is built in Chichester, England.
- Construction of the Jerónimos Monastery at Belém (Lisbon) in Portugal begins; it will take 100 years to complete.
- Construction of spire of St James' Church, Louth, Lincolnshire, England begins; it will take until c.1515 to complete.
- 1501/2 – Construction of the Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa in the Duchy of Braganza (Portugal) begins.
- 1502
- Tempietto, San Pietro in Montorio, Rome, designed by Donato Bramante, is built.
- Construction of St. Mary's Church, Gdańsk, begun in 1379 by Heinrich Ungeradin, is completed with the installation of vaulting by Heinrich Haetzl.
- Vladislav Hall in Prague Castle, designed by Benedikt Rejt, is completed.
- Expansion of Great Malvern Priory in England is completed.
- 1503 – All Saints' Church, Wittenberg (Schlosskirche) is consecrated.
- 1504 – Matsumoto Castle in Japan built.
- 1505 – Archangel Cathedral in Moscow begun.
- 1505–1508 – Fondaco dei Tedeschi on the Grand Canal (Venice) rebuilt by Fra Giovanni Giocondo.
- 1506 – Construction of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome to the design of Bramante begins.
- 1507
- Seville Cathedral consecrated.
- Construction of the church of Santa Maria di Loreto, Rome, to the design of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger begins.
- Rebuilding of Wawel Castle in Kraków begins.
- 1508
- Church of San Rocco, Venice, designed by Bartolomeo Bon, begun in 1489, is completed.
- Church of Santa Maria della Consolazione (Todi) is begun.
- 1509
- Palazzo Loredan on the Grand Canal (Venice), begun by Mauro Codussi in 1481, is completed.
- Fugger Chapel of St. Anne's Church, Augsburg, Swabia, is begun.
Events
- 1503: November 1 – Pope Julius II becomes Pope; he will be patron to Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo.
Births
- 1507: October 1 – Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian Mannerist architect (died 1573)
- 1508: November 30 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (died 1580)
Deaths
- c. 1501 – Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Sienese painter, sculptor, architect and military engineer (born 1439)
- 1503: June 24 – Reginald Bray, English Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and architect (born 1440)
- c. 1506/07 – Conrad Pflüger, Swabian architect (born c. 1450)