1690s in architecture
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[edit] Buildings
- 1690 - The Sindone Chapel in Turin, designed by Guarino Guarini is completed.
- 1695 - Wren Library, Cambridge, the library of Trinity College, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.
- 1696 - Main façades of Chatsworth House completed to designs of William Talman in a pioneering English Baroque style.
- 1699 - Castle Howard (completed 1712), designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor, is begun.
- 1690-1700 - two Baroque palaces in Vilnius, Sapieha Palace and Slushko Palace, designed by Pietro Perti, have been erected.
- 1695-1699 - Craigiehall, near Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by Sir William Bruce
[edit] Events
- 1696 - The window tax is introduced in England.
[edit] Births
- 1690 - Richard Cassels (died 1751)
- 1691 - James Burrough (died 1764)
- June 17, 1691 - Giovanni Paolo Pannini (died 1765)
- 1692 - Pietro Antonio Trezzini (died after 1760)
- 13 September 1693 - Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach born in Vienna (died 1742)
- April 25, 1694 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (died 1753)
- September 26, 1694 - Martin Schmid (died 1772)
- 1695 - Roger Morris - (died 1749)
- 1698 - October 23 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel (died 1782)
- 1699 - Edward Lovett Pearce (died 1733)
- 1699 - Matthew Brettingham the Elder (died 1769)
[edit] Deaths
- February 8, 1691 - Carlo Rainaldi (born 1611)
