The Textbook of Architecture

Glossary · P

Palazzo

Also called palazzi

An Italian town house of a leading family or a public body, typically built round a cortile with a rusticated ground floor and a piano nobile above.

See also: Cortile

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters Renaissance and Baroque.

Nearby in the glossary

Ovolo · Pada · Pagoda · Paifang · Palissade · Palmiform · Pantry · Papyriform