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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.
The elevated main floor level became known as the piano nobile, and is still referred to as the "first floor" in Europe. Palladio also established an influential new building format for the agricultural villas of the Venetian aristocracy. Palladio's approach to his villa designs was not relative to his experience in Rome.
[14] [n 2] Palladian villas are usually built with three floors: a rusticated basement or ground floor, containing the service and minor rooms; above this, the piano nobile (noble level), accessed through a portico reached by a flight of external steps, containing the principal reception and bedrooms; and lastly a low mezzanine floor with ...
Ca' Rezzonico (Italian pronunciation: [ˈka (r)retˈtsɔːniko]) is a palazzo and art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy.It is a particularly notable example of the 18th century Venetian baroque and rococo architecture and interior decoration, and displays paintings by the leading Venetian painters of the period, including Francesco Guardi and Giambattista ...
On the main floor, the so-called Piano nobile, are the frescoed halls of the Maggior and Minor Consiglio, where many public events take place. The Palace of the Doges was restored in 1992, in occasion of the celebrations of Christopher Columbus and the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the Americas.
The main floor – the piano nobile – of the château neuf was given over entirely to two apartments: one for the King, and one for the Queen. The grand appartement du roi occupied the northern part of the château neuf and grand appartement de la reine occupied the southern part.
The grandest and finest rooms within the corps de logis are often found not at grade level, but on the first or even the second floor above. This floor is often referred to as the Italian piano nobile, the French bel étage, or the German beletage. The corps de logis is usually flanked by lower, secondary wings, such as the barchesse of ...
The third phase of the changes came during the 19th century and was limited to the living quarters on the 1st storey (2nd floor in American English) of the palace. The piano nobile remained untouched and unused for a full century. The primary focus of attention of this period was the total transformation of the Baroque formal garden into a ...