loggia
(noun)
A roofed, open gallery.
Examples of loggia in the following topics:
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Raphael
- In the later phase of Raphael's career, he designed and painted the Loggia at the Vatican, a long thin gallery that was open to a courtyard on one side and decorated with Roman style grottesche.
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Mantua
- Once the shell of the Palazzo del Te was completed, for ten years a team of plasterers, carvers, and fresco painters labored, until barely a surface in any of the loggias or salons remained undecorated.
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Mannerist Architecture
- It has, in its ground floor, a dark central portico running parallel to the street, but as a semi enclosed space, rather than an open loggia.