Belvedere villa

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Belvedere villa

villa, Vatican City, Europe

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Western architecture
High Renaissance in Italy (1495–1520)
…to the church and the Belvedere villa of Innocent VIII on the hill above the palace. Bramante gave the new court a neo-antique flavour recalling the imperial palaces on the hills of Rome and the hippodromus on the Palatine. Terraced up the hillside on three levels joined by monumental stairs,…
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…to the church and the Belvedere villa of Innocent VIII on the hill above the palace. Bramante gave the new court a neo-antique flavour recalling the imperial palaces on the hills of Rome and the hippodromus on the Palatine. Terraced up the hillside on three levels joined by monumental stairs,…
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