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Venice is built on alluvial mud, and most buildings in the city were (and mostly still are) supported by large numbers of timber piles driven into the mud. Above a stone platform sitting on these, the normal building material is brick, although the Renaissance facades were usually faced with Istrian stone , a fine limestone that is not strictly ...
Venetian Gothic is the particular form of Italian Gothic architecture typical of Venice, originating in local building requirements, with some influence from Byzantine architecture, and some from Islamic architecture, reflecting Venice's trading network. Very unusually for medieval architecture, the style is at its most characteristic in ...
The ground and first floor had a double colonnade, while the upper floors were decorated with white and pink marble in delicate geometric designs. [12] Major examples of aristocratic residences include Palazzo Pisani and Palazzo Foscari, but the best-known example is Ca' d'Oro, or "House of Gold", built between 1421 and 1444 for Marco Contarini ...
The early Venetian constructors used building techniques that included using impermeable stone supported by wooden rafts and timber piles. [2] The timber piles did not rot because they were set into the mud at the bottom of the lagoon which prevented oxygen and harmful microbes from reaching them.
Venetian Arsenal (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Venice" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
Villa Capra "La Rotonda" in Vicenza.One of Palladio's most influential designs. Villa Godi in Lugo Vicentino.An early work notable for lack of external decoration. The Palladian villas of the Veneto are villas designed by Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, all of whose buildings were erected in the Veneto, the mainland region of north-eastern Italy then under the political control of the ...
Velma (plural velme) is a Venetian dialect term derived from "melma" (mud). It is also used by Italian scientists to refer to lagunar mudflats (also called tidal flats), such as those found in the Lagoon of Venice. They are areas of shallow lagunar bottoms which are normally submerged, but emerge at low tides.
The Loggetta is a small, richly decorated building at the base of the bell tower in Saint Mark's Square, Venice, Italy.Built by Jacopo Sansovino between 1538 and 1546, [1] it served at various times as a gathering place for nobles and for meetings of the procurators of Saint Mark, the officials of the Venetian Republic who were responsible principally for the administration of the treasury of ...