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Palazzo style refers to an architectural style of the 19th and 20th centuries based upon the palazzi (palaces) built by wealthy families of the Italian Renaissance. The term refers to the general shape, proportion and a cluster of characteristics, rather than a specific design; hence it is applied to buildings spanning a period of nearly two ...
Only in 1918 was the Chamber definitively returned to the Palazzo Montecitorio. The return of the Chamber of Deputies to the palace followed extensive renovations, which left only the facade intact. The architect, Ernesto Basile, was an exponent of Art Nouveau, known in Italy as Liberty style. He reduced the courtyard, demolished the wings and ...
Palazzo Montecitorio – Italian Parliament; Palazzo Muti; Palazzo Nuovo – Comprising the Capitoline Museums with Palazzo dei Conservatori; Palazzo Odescalchi; Palazzo Muti Papazzurri; Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi; Palazzo Pamphilj; Palazzo Pio; Palazzo Poli; Palazzo di Propaganda Fide; Palazzo del Quirinale – Residence from the Pope to ...
Palazzo Koch is a Renaissance Revival palace on Via Nazionale in Rome, Italy. Initially commissioned by the National Bank of the Kingdom of Italy and built in 1888-1892, it is the current head office of its successor entity the Bank of Italy. It is named after its designer, the architect Gaetano Koch.
The palazzo was built in an area called "piazza dell'Isola" (island square, currently Piazza Matteotti), which housed the wood and cattle market. At that time, it was an islet surrounded by the Retrone and Bacchiglione streams, and to protect the structure from the frequent floods, Palladio designed it on an elevated position: the entrance ...
The Palazzo Venezia or Palazzo Barbo (Italian: [paˈlattso veˈnɛttsja]), formerly "'Palace of Saint Mark'", is a large early Renaissance palace in central Rome, Italy, situated to the north of the Capitoline Hill. Today the property of the Republic of Italy it houses the National Museum of the Palazzo Venezia. The main (eastern) facade ...
The House of Borromeo inherited Palazzo Ceri and completed multiple renovations and extensions. Eventually, in 1678, the palace was for sale. Purchased by Lucrezia Colonna, who was married to the Duke of Poli, Giuseppe Lotario Conti. Here, the palace changed names again to how it is known today, Palazzo Conti di Poli, or Palazzo Poli.
The Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, also known as the Palazzo della Civiltà del Lavoro, or in everyday speech as the Colosseo Quadrato ("Square Colosseum"), is a building in the EUR district in Rome. [1]: 199 It was designed in 1938 by three Italian architects: Giovanni Guerrini, Ernesto La Padula, and Mario Romano. [2]