10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PIANO NOBILE»
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Plate 26 Elevation of Holkham Hall from VB, Vol V, Plates 68-69 (BAL/RIBA). from
above, only one hexastyle Corinthian portico at piano- nobile level reached by a
perron, and a sequence of three rooms on the garden-front, the centre ...
2
The Utility of Splendor: Ceremony, Social Life, and ...
Nymphenburg, Schloss, plan of piano nobile, early eighteenth century 100 36.
Nymphenburg, Schloss, plan of upper floors, early eighteenth century 101 37.
Schleissheim, view looking east across Alt-Schleissheim to Neu-Schleissheim by
...
Samuel John Klingensmith, Christian F. Otto, Mark Ashton, 1993
The doors, which stretched the width of the landing, were the entrance to the
piano nobile. Behind them was Ca' Dona's grandest apartment. And its biggest. It
covered the entire floor of this gigantic building. When James Davis was writing
his ...
4
The Italian Piazza Transformed: Parma in the Communal Age
For example, the width of the openings ofthe ground-story loggia, the distance
between the top ofthe ground story arcade and the base ofthe piano nobile
windows, and the distance from the intrados ofthe arch to the base of each piano
nobile ...
5
The West: From the Advent of Christendom to the Eve of ...
In stark contrast, the verticals ofthe piano nobile are enhanced by projectingthe
Doric pilasters in triads and breaking the entablature out over them. Horizontals
and verticals are reconciled in the attic storey which replaces Bramante's ...
Christopher Tadgell, 2013
6
The Rough Guide to Crete
Alongside the Throne Room, a stairway climbs to the first floor and Evans's
reconstructed Piano Nobile. Perhaps the most interesting feature of this part of
the palace is the view it offers of the palace storerooms, with their rows of pithoi (
storage ...
John Fisher, Geoff Garvey, 2001
7
The Architectural Magazine, and Journal of Improvement in ...
The upper floor is a repetition, in point of division, of the piano nobile ; the rustics,
however, do not project so much, but bear the same gradational proportion of
character as those on the piano nobile do to those of the basement. Nothing less
...
8
Recollections and Miscellaneous Essays: Cornelliana
You climb it to reach the piano nobile and then you go no further. But, with five
office floors of equal value on the one side and three gallery floors on the other,
then to what are fantasies of piano nobile related? Or, as the entrance facade
with ...
Colin Rowe, Alexander Caragonne, 1999
9
Triumphal Forms; Structural Patterns in Elizabethan Poetry
Vertically, the half-columns of the piano umile surprisingly terminated in the
niches of the piano nobile rather than in structural members : ' In the wall's own
plastic pattern a concave form crowned a convex one, and in its structural pattern
a ...
10
Greek and Roman Architecture
Plan B. 3 The Palace of Cnossus, restored plan of Entrance System and Piano
Nobile of West Section 12 Ibid. Plan C. 4 Reconstructed elevation of the Grand
Staircase, Cnossus . 1 5 Sir Arthur Evans, The Palace of Minos, I, 1921, Fig. 247.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PIANO NOBILE»
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piano nobile is used in the context of the following news items.
E' arrivato il temporale
«Più di un mezzo» sta a indicare che in otto prestigiose sale del piano nobile di Villa Arconati, ornate di affreschi e stucchi settecenteschi, ... «La Prealpina, Jul 15»
Centro del sapere Usa, l'intervista a Messa
Ha sede nel cuore della Capitale, presso il piano nobile del Palazzo Antici Mattei, uno degli esempi più prestigiosi della Roma seicentesca, ... «L'Opinione, Jul 15»
Victorian residence once home of philanthropist lord mayor
What neighbours use as a master bedroom – on the top floor overlooking tree canopies on the street – is currently used as a piano nobile. «Irish Times, Jul 15»
6 inexpensive, off-the-radar wine regions
... to the point that Prague Castle itself has vineyards that date back to 10 A.D. The on-site Piano Nobile restaurant provides the perfect spot to ... «Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Jun 15»
A Sargent Landscape, Unseen Works by Monet and Warhol and The …
... painted in 1836, while Piano Nobile (UK) will offer works from 20th century British artists, including 'The Grey Shawl' by William Nicholson, ... «ArtfixDaily, Jun 15»
London's latest Masterpiece
Masterpiece's special mix includes a 1980 oil on linen by Bridget Riley from London's Piano Nobile, a 2011 console by Ingrid Donat from ... «Christie's, Jun 15»
Cross-collecting in Chelsea
... Piano Nobile has secured a Bridget Riley work from 1980 as well as the 'The Grey Shawl' by William Nicholson from the Harewood House ... «Financial Times, Jun 15»
House price rises, George Clooney and 90s pop stars: Why not live …
At Palazzo Morosini del Pestrin, for example, where a four-bedroom apartment on the piano nobile (the first, grandest floor) is on sale for €2.8 ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
Baptisms held in one of the two Grand Masters Palace chapels
In fact, the corbelled arched ceiling here is a unique one and totally different from all the other ceilings in the piano nobile. It would have ... «Malta Independent Online, Jun 15»
Two in Monkstown offer a blank canvas
Originally this room would have been the piano nobile, and there would be little work required to reinstate it as a living area. As a bedroom, it is ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»
