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A belvedere / ˈ b ɛ l v ɪ d ɪər / or belvidere (from Italian for "beautiful view") is an architectural structure sited to take advantage of a fine or scenic view. [1] The term has been used both for rooms in the upper part of a building or structures on the roof, or a separate pavilion in a garden or park.
Belvedere Castle was designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould in 1867. [1] An architectural hybrid of Romanesque and Gothic styles, the design called for a Manhattan schist and granite structure with a corner tower and conical cap, a lookout over parapet walls beneath it. [2] Its name comes from belvedere, which means "beautiful view" in ...
Belvedere is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in May 1958. It shows a plausible-looking belvedere building that is an impossible object , modelled after an impossible cube .
Innocent VIII began construction of the Villa Belvedere on the high ground overlooking old St Peter's Basilica, in 1484.Here, where the breezes could tame the Roman summer, he had the Florentine architect Antonio del Pollaiuolo, design and complete by 1487 a little summerhouse, which also had views to the east of central Rome and north to the pastures beyond the Castel Sant'Angelo (the Prati ...
Illumination of the Belvedere and Rocher of the Petit Trianon in 1781 in honor of Austrian Emperor Joseph II. Claude-Louis Châtelet, 1781. Marie-Antoinette used the small building as a music pavilion. Still, she also enjoyed breakfasting here, [23] [24] observing the awakening of nature in the myrtle, rose, and jasmine [25] beds in spring. The ...
Shown here is a medieval sundial that was found built into the upstanding house. Sundials are regularly found in churches dating to the late Anglo-Saxon and early Norman periods.
Here are the famous people who died in 2025. Musicians Marianne Faithfull and Peter Yarrow, as well as director David Lynch, have passed away. So did Aubrey Plaza's husband, filmmaker Jeff Baena ...
The Belvedere on the Pfingstberg (German: Belvedere auf dem Pfingstberg) is a palace north of the New Garden in Potsdam, Germany, at the summit of Pfingstberg hill. It was commissioned by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia and built between 1847 and 1863 as a viewing platform.