The Textbook of Architecture

The Cabinet of Models

A belvedere tower

The square tower at the corner of a palace front: a framed window in each storey, the top one cross-mullioned between statues in niches; quoins, a crowning cornice and a balustrade with statues.

A belvedere tower Open in Models ↗

Illustrates: Baroque

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters Claude’s Seaports.