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Castel del Monte (Italian for "Castle of the Mountain"; Barese: Castìdde du Monte) is a 13th-century citadel and castle situated on a hill in Andria in the Apulia region of southeast Italy. It was built during the 1240s by King Frederick II , who had inherited the lands from his mother Constance of Sicily .
Ken Rolston reviewed Castle Book II and The Palladium Book of European Castles in White Wolf #40 (1994) and stated that "I only use European Castles for real quick-and-dirty improvisation. On the other hand, Castle Book II curiously remains fresh and useful for me despite its outdated design." [1]
Medieval architecture was the art and science of designing and constructing buildings in the Middle Ages. The major styles of the period included pre-Romanesque, Romanesque, and Gothic. In the fifteenth century, architects began to favour classical forms again, in the Renaissance style, marking the end of the medieval period. Many examples of ...
Athelhampton House - built 1493–1550, early in the period Leeds Castle, reign of Henry VIII Hardwick Hall, Elizabethan prodigy house. The Tudor architectural style is the final development of medieval architecture in England and Wales, during the Tudor period (1485–1603) and even beyond, and also the tentative introduction of Renaissance architecture to Britain.
The plan for this was drafted by Wilhelm Hentze, head of the Elector's court gardens. The plan was subsequently revised at the request of William II by Louis Meinicke. After the demolition of the medieval water castle in 1829, the palace garden was again redesigned according to plans by Louis Meinicke.
The upper levels and first attic floor of the castle are embellished with an exaggerated pseudo-medieval decor, featuring tall dormers and false battlements. [ GLG 17 ] The towers are decorated with corbelled turrets, and the roofs are crowned with large finials , enhancing the castle's slender appearance.
There are even a few examples of bergfrieds with irregular polygonal floor plans. A rare form is the triangular bergfried of Grenzau Castle near Höhr-Grenzhausen or that of Rauheneck Castle near Baden bei Wien. Towers with triangular and pentagonal floor plans invariably had a corner facing the main line of attack on the castle.
Most Spanish castles were built from stone, whereas castles in Eastern Europe were usually of timber construction. [154] On the Construction of the Castle of Safed, written in the early 1260s, describes the construction of a new castle at Safed. It is "one of the fullest" medieval accounts of a castle's construction. [155]