title: 1530s in architecture
text: # 1530s in architecture
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings
  
  * 1531 – Kõpu Lighthouse on Hiiumaa begins operation.
  * 1532–1536
     * Rood screen in King's College Chapel, Cambridge in England is erected.
     * Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne in Rome, designed by Baldassare Peruzzi, is built.
  * c. 1532–1537 – Palazzo Massimo di Pirro in Rome, designed by Giovanni Mangone, is built.
  * 1532
     * Church of the Ascension (the "White Column") at Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, is built.
     * Church of the Royal Monastery of Brou in France (begun 1506) is completed.
  * 1533 – Work begins on La Fortaleza in Puerto Rico.
  * 1534 – Regensburg Cathedral in Germany is completed after 259 years of work.
  * c. 1535–1537 – Casa Aliaga in Lima (Ciudad de los Reyes), Peru, is built.
  * 1535 – After 258 years of work since 1277, St Alphege Church in Solihull, England, is completed.
  * 1537 – Work begins on the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, designed by Jacopo Sansovino.
  * 1538 – Work begins on
     * Nonsuch Palace in Surrey, England.
     * The Piazza del Campidoglio on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, designed by Michelangelo. Pope Paul III moves the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius to the Capitoline Hill.
     * Adding bastions to the city walls of Nuremberg, to the design of Maltese military engineer Antonio Falzon.
  * 1539 – Work begins on the first batch of Device Forts on the coast of England, including Cowes Castle on the Isle of Wight.
  
  ## Events
  
  * 1537 – Sebastiano Serlio publishes the first volume of his architectural treatise, Tutte l'opere d'archittura et prospetiva, in Venice, putting the classical orders into canonical form.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 1530 – Juan de Herrera, Spanish architect (died 1593)
  * c. 1531 – Bernardo Buontalenti, Florentine architect, stage designer, military engineer and artist (died 1608)
  * 1533 – Giovanni Antonio Dosio, Italian architect and sculptor (died 1609)
  * 1535
     * Early? - Robert Smythson, English architect (died 1614)
     * June 18 – Jakub Krčín, Czech architect (died 1604)
  * c. 1536 – Ottaviano Nonni, Bolognese architect, sculptor and painter working in Rome (died 1606)
  * 1538 – Pablo de Céspedes, Spanish painter, poet and architect (died 1608)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 1530: Approximate date – Bramantino, Milanese painter and architect (born c.1456)
  * 1532 – Andrea Riccio, Italian sculptor and architect (born c.1470)
  * 1534: December 27 – Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, Florentine architect (born 1453)
  * 1537: January 6 – Baldassare Peruzzi, Sienese architect and painter working in Rome (born 1481)
  * 1539 – Marco Palmezzano, Italian painter and architect from Forli (born 1460)
  