Example sentences for: palazzo

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  • In gentle contrast to the austere Italian Gothic exterior of the Palazzo Vecchio by Arnolfo di Cambio (architect of the Duomo), Vasari added ornate stucco and frescoes to the first inner courtyard for a Medici wedding in the 1560s (the palazzo served briefly as a Medici residence until they moved across the river to the Palazzo Pitti).

  • Northwest of the monument, the 15th-century Palazzo Venezia is a fine example of severe but elegant early Renaissance architecture, now containing a museum of medieval and Renaissance arms, furniture, and sculpture.

  • At the center, Piazza dei Signori is graced by Palladio’s first public work, the Basilica Palladina (1549), not a church at all, but the old Roman concept of a gathering place for the lawcourts and assemby hall of the Gothic Palazzo della Ragione that it encases with a colonnade and loggia.

  • On the west flank of the handsome Piazza Maggiore, the massive medieval Palazzo Comunale with its Renaissance porch is a striking expression of Bologna’s civic power.

  • In a piazza that is an open-air sculpture gallery, more statuary graces the orator’s platform along the Palazzo Vecchio’s sober façade.


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