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The Piazza d'Italia is an urban public plaza located behind the American Italian Cultural Center at Lafayette and Commerce Streets in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. It is controlled by the New Orleans Building Corporation (NOBC), a public benefit corporation wholly owned by the City of New Orleans.
Located within the CBD is one of the world's most famous pieces of postmodern architecture, Charles Willard Moore's Piazza d'Italia. The district has a number of significant historicist buildings. Perhaps the most notable are the Moorish revival Immaculate Conception Church and the Egyptian revival U.S. Custom House.
Metaphysical painting (Italian: pittura metafisica) or metaphysical art was a style of painting developed by the Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà. The movement began in 1910 with de Chirico, whose dreamlike works with sharp contrasts of light and shadow often had a vaguely threatening, mysterious quality, "painting that which ...
The architecture with a sober compositional order is scanned by two orders of ledges and three of windows. On the noble floor curved gables alternate with triangular ones in travertine. The palace is adorned with 2 large portals, one opens on Corso Vannucci, the other on Piazza Italia. Both present 2 columns in travertine surmounted by a balcony.
The paintings, rich in symbolism, are on the unification of Italy, with many instances of local history. The Palace piano nobile (first floor) has 4 rooms, where the pictorial decoration has been made with particular attention; especially 2 rooms, the Sala del Consiglio (Council's room) and the Sala dei ricevimenti (meeting's room), were ...
Grand Designs. The country's full of awe-inspiring natural wonders — but those made by man (and woman) are equally impressive. The architect behind a design or the creation's history, style, or ...
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