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Belvedere (structure)

{{Short description|Architectural structure sited to take advantage of a fine or scenic view}}

{{Other uses|Belvedere (disambiguation)}}

File:Blenheim Palace from the Water Terraces October 2016.jpg, England]]

Image:PashkovHouseMoscow.JPG in Moscow, Russia, crowned with a belvedere]]

A belvedere or belvidere ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|ɛ|l|v|ᵻ|d|ɪər}} {{respell|BEL|vid|eer}}; from {{langnf|it||beautiful view}}) is an architectural structure sited to take advantage of a fine or scenic view.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Belvedere|url=https://www.britannica.com/art/belvedere |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=6 July 2017}} The term has been used both for rooms in the upper part of a building or structures on the roof, or a separate pavilion in a garden or park. The actual structure can be of any form or style, including a turret, a cupola or an open gallery.{{cite web|title=Belvedere bell ve DEER|url=http://www.buffaloah.com/a/DCTNRY/b/belv.html|website=Illustrated Architecture Dictionary|publisher=buffaloah.com|access-date=6 July 2017}} The term may be also used for a paved terrace or just a place with a good viewpoint, but no actual building.

It has also been used as a name for a whole building, as in the Belvedere, Vienna, a huge palace, or Belvedere Castle, a folly in Central Park in New York.

Examples

On the hillside above the Vatican Palace ({{circa|1480}}–1490), Antonio del Pollaiuolo built a small pavilion ({{lang|it|casino}} in Italian) named the palazzetto or the Belvedere for Pope Innocent VIII. Some years later Donato Bramante linked the Vatican with the Belvedere, a commission from Pope Julius II, by creating the Cortile del Belvedere ("Courtyard of the Belvedere"), in which stood the Apollo Belvedere, among the most famous of antique sculptures. This began the fashion in the 16th century for the belvedere.

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Gallery

Image:Cortile.del.belvedere.1.jpg|A carousel in the Cortile del Belvedere, 1565

File:Klein-Glienicke, Park, Aussichtspavillon Grosse Neugierde.jpg|Belvedere in the park of the Glienicke Palace, in Berlin

File:Tour du Belvedere.JPG|Tour du Belvédère, Mulhouse in Alsace

File:Johnsons' Goat Tower, brightened.jpg|Johnson's Belvedere, "Tower of Baaa" in Findlay, Illinois

File:Le kiosque du Jardin des Plantes (Paris).jpg|Gloriette de Buffon in the Jardin des plantes in Paris

File:HaldonBelvedere Devon England.PNG|Haldon Belvedere, in Devon, UK

Image:Musei vaticani - cortile del Belvedere 01137-9.JPG|Patio of the Cortile del Belvedere in the Vatican

File:Pražský hrad, Letohrádek královny Anny 02.jpg|Belvedere of Queen Anne's Summer Palace in the garden of Prague Castle (1538–1560)

File:Wien SchloBBelvedere03.jpg|Belvedere, Vienna

File:Belvedere auf dem Pfingstberg in Potsdam Juli 2014.jpg|Il Belvedere on the Pfingstberg in Potsdam

File:Vatican Museum pinecone.jpg|Cortile del Belvedere, Vatican

File:Giardino di Villa Spada, il balconcino.jpg|Belevedere of the Villa Spada, Bologna

File:ShrubsHillTower WindsorGreatPark 18thCentury.jpg|"Shrubs Hill Tower", Windsor
Renamed "Fort Belvedere".

File:Belvedere Castle, Central Park.jpg|Belvedere Castle, Central Park, New York

File:Belvedere, Plymouth Hoe.jpg|The Belvedere, Plymouth Hoe

See also

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General references

  • {{cite book | author=Roth, Leland M. | title=Understanding Architecture: Its Elements History and Meaning | publisher=Westview Press | location=Oxford, UK | year=1993 | isbn=0-06-430158-3 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/understandingarc00roth/page/342 342–3] | url=https://archive.org/details/understandingarc00roth/page/342 }}

Citations

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External links

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