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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Doge's Palace. This is a list of buildings and structures in Venice, Italy. A. Ala Napoleonica;
This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. Architecture in Venice by period or style (6 C) Buildings and structures in Venice by sestiere (6 C)
The General Post Office Building, Sydney, by James Barnet is in the Venetian Renaissance style. 1866-80. A major 19th-century architect to work extensively in the Palazzo style was Edmund Blacket. Blacket arrived in Sydney, Australia, just a few years before the discovery of gold in NSW and Victoria in 1851. Within the next decade he built the ...
The Ca' d'Oro, or Palazzo Santa Sofia, is a palace on the Grand Canal in Venice, northern Italy.Ca' d'Oro or Cadoro translates to "House of Gold" or "Golden House" in English because of the gilt and polychrome external decorations that once adorned its walls.