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  2. Piano nobile - Wikipedia

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    An early-15th-century piano nobile at the Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara.Its larger windows indicate its superior status compared with the rooms on the floor below. The Beletage of Dresden's Villa Martha, built in the 1870s At the 18th-century Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire, the piano nobile is placed above a rusticated ground floor, and reached by an external staircase.

  3. Palazzo dei Priori - Wikipedia

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    On the ground floor, there are three asymmetrical arches; between the first two is a pulpit used for the reading of the edicts. Two large corbels above the Gothic portal support copies of bronze statues of the griffin , symbol of the city, and the Guelph lion ; the originals (now in the entrance hall of the palace) were made in 1274, [ 4 ...

  4. Palazzo style architecture - Wikipedia

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    Italian palazzi, as against villas which were set in the countryside, were part of the architecture of cities, being built as town houses, the ground floor often serving as commercial premises. Early palazzi exist from the Romanesque and Gothic periods, but the definitive style dates from a period beginning in the 15th century, when many noble ...

  5. Mezzanine - Wikipedia

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    A mezzanine (/ ˌ m ɛ z ə ˈ n iː n /; or in Italian, a mezzanino) [1] is an intermediate floor in a building which is partly open to the double-height ceilinged floor below, or which does not extend over the whole floorspace of the building, a loft with non-sloped walls. However, the term is often used loosely for the floor above the ground ...

  6. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    Italian term Literal translation Definition A cappella: in chapel style: Sung with no (instrumental) accompaniment, has much harmonizing Aria: air: Piece of music, usually for a singer Aria di sorbetto: sorbet air: A short solo performed by a secondary character in the opera Arietta: little air: A short or light aria Arioso: airy A type of solo ...

  7. abaco - abacus; abat-jour - bedside lamp; abate - abbot; abbacchiato - depressed/down; abbacinare - to dazzle; abbacinato - dazzled; abbagliante - dazzling

  8. Dado (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    The dado in a pedestal is roughly cubical in shape, and the word in Italian means "dice" or "cube" (ultimately Latin datum, meaning "something given", hence also a die for casting lots). [ 2 ] [ 4 ] By extension, the dado becomes the lower part of a wall when the pedestal is treated as being continuous along the wall, with the cornice becoming ...

  9. Piazza del Campidoglio - Wikipedia

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    Rossellino built a building with a round arched portico on the ground floor and a façade with cross windows and paired loggias. The orientation of the pre-existing structures was preserved according to a design principle identical to the one that Rossellino implemented subsequently in the town of Pienza , creating a trapezoidal square.