title: 1450s in architecture
text: # 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
  