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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
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