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| a roofed arcade or gallery with open sides stretching along the front or side of a building[image] |
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A grey sandstone from Italy often paired with white plaster as seen in Brunelleschi's San Lorenzo in Florence[image] |
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| a palace type; in the Italian Renaissance, a four-square block with central court or cortile and the main florr on the second or piano nobile[image] |
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| Heavy stonework with a surface left rough, or with deeply channelled joints, used principally on Renaissance buildings as seen in Bartolomeo's Palazzo Medici in Florence[image] |
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| another word for console, sometimes applied to a series of ornatmental brackets supporting a cornice[image] |
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| an egg-shaped ornament alternating with a dart-shaped one[image] |
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| first floor of a palazzo home, observed in Alberti's Palazzo Rucellai |
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| order placed atop one another[image] |
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| in Italian architecture, the term applied to an open courtyard inside a building[image] |
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| mosaic inlay in wood[image] |
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| an elevated room or structure situated to afford a fine view or capture breezes |
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| A villa set in an open countryside, for example, Palladio's Villa Rotunda in Veneto[image] |
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| an ornamental, geometric arrangement of flat, panneled beds[image] |
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| a projecting horizontal board or projecting course(s) of brick or stone that define a floor level on the inside[image] |
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| the semi-circular or cresent-shaped projection of a window opening into a vaulted ceiling[image] |
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a block beneath the soffit of a Doric cornice, usually decorated with cylindrical or truncated conical elements
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| a central arched opening with lower trabeated openings to each side. Also sometimes called a Palladian or Serlian motif[image] |
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| representations of plump, naked, often winged young children in painting[image] |
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| a linear garden walk defiend by trees on both sides[image] |
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| Large country house in France, for example De Cortona's Chateaux[image] |
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| a window that projects above the slope of a roof[image] |
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| a Roman order combining features of the Ionic and Corinthian[image] |
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| a wide and long passageway in Engliah and French Renaissance houses for living purposes[image] |
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| a low wall at the perimeter of a roof[image] |
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| a projecting canopy or carraige porch[image] |
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| the center post around which a circular stair winds or a straight stair turns[image] |
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| an ornamental plaque, frequently oval or square[image] |
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| space-shaping, pilaster-faced cross walls providing lateral stability for nave vaults in German Baroque churches[image] |
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| a stair that rises up a central flight to a landing then doubles back on either side to complete its ascent[image] |
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| The architectural period between Renaissance and Baroque that included very stylized, overactive and unnatural elements, both static and dymanic |
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| a boldly decorated frame hung above the doorways[image] |
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| a building used to protect ornamental shrubs and trees in cold weather[image] |
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| the main, free-standing unit in a French building complex[image] |
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| the aligning of a series of doors through a series of adjacent rooms[image] |
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| a dome. The term is also applied to describe the structure over the oculus of a dome[image] |
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| an elaborated door surround at the front facade of a buidling[image] |
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| A Renaissance intellectual movement in which architects studied antiquity and focused on human potential and achievements |
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| An artistic style of the seventeenth century characterized by complex forms, bold ornamentation, and contrasting elements |
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