Events
1452 – Leon Battista Alberti completes writing De Re Aedificatoria.
Buildings and Structures
Buildings
1450 – Reconstruction of Sforza Castle in Milan as a palace begins.
1450 – Construction of the Tomb of Ahi Evren in Kırşehir, Anatolia, commences.
1451–1457 – Villa Medici in Fiesole, Tuscany, designed by Michelozzo or Leon Battista Alberti, is built.
c. 1451 – Palazzo Rucellai in Florence, likely designed by Leon Battista Alberti and executed in part by Bernardo Rossellino, is substantially completed.
1451 – Earliest date for the start of construction of Jahaz Mahal in the Delhi Sultanate.
1452 – Hospices de Beaune in France, probably designed by Jacques Wiscrère, is inaugurated.
1456 – Ospedale Maggiore in Milan is begun by Filarete.
1457 – Edo Castle in Japan is first fortified by Ōta Dōkan.
1458 – Pitti Palace in Florence is initiated by Bartolommeo Ammanati and possibly Brunelleschi.
1459 – Sixty Dome Mosque (Shaṭ Gombuj Moshjid) in Khalifatabad (present-day Bagerhat District of Bangladesh) is completed.
Approximate date – Palazzo Pisani Moretta on the Grand Canal in Venice is constructed.
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, a Muslim Sufi saint, local ruler, and architectural patron.