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The Alcázar de Colón, or Columbus Alcazar, is the first fortified European palace built in the Americas. Located in the colonial area of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, it forms part of the Ciudad Colonial, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Constructed between 1510 and 1514, the palace is predominantly Gothic with Renaissance influences.
It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2] Bettendorf Castle, also known as Vianden Castle, Fox River Grove, Illinois, built in 1931–32. [8] Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina, 175,000-square-foot (16,300 m 2) Châteauesque style mansion built 1889–95 for George Washington Vanderbilt II.
Palazzo style architecture. 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 ...
The Renaissance architecture coexisted with the Gothic style in Bohemia and Moravia until the late 16th century (e. g. the residential part of a palace was built in the modern Renaissance style but its chapel was designed with Gothic elements). The façades of Czech Renaissance buildings were often decorated with sgraffito (figural or ornamental).
Palaces in the United States. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Palaces in the United States. The only palaces in the United States are those of the Hawaiian Royal Family and those of the royal governors while the United States was under the rule of the British Empire. For other official residences and grand private houses in the United ...
The Johnston–Felton–Hay House, often abbreviated Hay House, is a historic residence at 934 Georgia Avenue in Macon, Georgia. Built between 1855 and 1859 by William Butler Johnston and his wife Anne Tracy Johnston in the Italian Renaissance Revival style, the house has been called the "Palace of the South." The mansion sits atop Coleman Hill ...
Villa Foscari: facing the Brenta. Villa Foscari is a patrician villa in Mira, near Venice, northern Italy, designed by the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.It is also known as La Malcontenta ("The Discontented"), a nickname which—according to a legend—it received when the spouse of one of the Foscaris was locked up in the house because she allegedly did not live up to her ...
The Virgin and The Unicorn, depicting Giulia Farnese by Domenichino, ca 1602. Palazzo Farnese ([paˈlattso farˈneːze, -eːse]) or Farnese Palace is one of the most important High Renaissance palaces in Rome. Owned by the Italian Republic, it was given to the French government in 1936 for a period of 99 years, and currently serves as the ...