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    Piano nobile (Italian for "noble floor" or "noble level", also sometimes referred to by the corresponding French term, bel étage) is the architectural...
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    Piano Nobile is a commercial art gallery in London, England, specialising in twentieth-century British art. It was established by Dr Robert Travers at...
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    ceiling coverings of approximately 600 paintings in the rooms of the piano nobile was accomplished in just 7 years. Hans Adam Weissenkircher began his...
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    which is in fact made of pink Derbyshire alabaster; this leads to the piano nobile, or the first floor, and state rooms. The most impressive of these rooms...
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    painting of the early 18th century shows only the ground floor and first piano nobile completed, and a temporary roof protecting the structure from the elements...
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  • company Giuoco Piano, a chess opening Piano rialzato, a mezzanine or raised ground floor, e.g., to defend against acqua alta Piano nobile, the principal...
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    The Ca' Sagredo is a 14th-century Byzantine-Gothic style palace located on the corner of the Strada Nuova and Campo Santa Sofia, in the sestiere of Cannaregio...
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    the north wing. The principal rooms are contained on the first-floor piano nobile behind the west-facing garden façade at the rear of the palace. The centre...
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    rooms on the piano nobile, thus there is no great staircase of state: anyone worthy of such state would have no cause to leave the piano nobile. Insofar as...
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    areas closer at hand, but would have put the principal rooms on a raised piano nobile. This would have given the palace not only a more commanding presence...
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    wings are advanced and more prominent. Inside the central block, the piano nobile or main floor opened onto a loggia with a triple arcade, reached by a...
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    power of the absolutist monarch Louis XIV. Located on the first floor (piano nobile) of the palace's central body, it faces west towards the Palace Gardens...
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  • 2016 or 2017 the owner of the dinner service sold the service to the Piano Nobile art gallery in London, which then sold the set to the Charleston Trust...
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    which was probably painted on the wall of the Sanctuary Hall on the Piano Nobile at the palace of Knossos. The sacral knot worn at the back of the neck...
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    Ammanati created a monumental staircase to lead with more pomp to the piano nobile, and he extended the wings on the garden front that embraced a courtyard...
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    and frescoes were carried out, such as the Spring composition on the piano nobile, by the painter Filiberto Sbardella. In 1958 the palazzo was bought by...
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    day, including the placement of the apartments on the main floor (the piano nobile, the next floor up from the ground level), a convention the architect...
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    from their northern counterparts by large glazed Serlian windows on the piano nobile of their southern facades. Here the blocks were to appear as of two floors...
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    Oxford: Phaidon. Shone, Richard (2021). Sickert: The Theatre of Life. Piano Nobile, 2021. Sickert, Walter; Hollis, Marianne, Hayward Gallery, Sainsbury...
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  • 1773, remanié en 1778; Diderot II, Classiques Larousse 1934, p. 56 "Piano nobile - (Architecture): Definition". En.mimi.hu. Retrieved 2011-10-27. Mark...
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    into a sculpture gallery, and the creation of a carriage ramp to the piano nobile on the East front were all declined by Morrison. However, the house was...
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    floor, above which was a piano nobile, formally accessed by an exterior double staircase from the courtyard. Above the piano nobile were the more private...
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    access to the canal surmounted by a piano nobile with open loggias and decorated columns, with a "secondo piano nobile" (secondary floor) above. The comparatively...
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    by a single window. All principal rooms were on the second floor or piano nobile. Building began in 1567. Neither Palladio nor the owner, Paolo Almerico...
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    façade betrays some internal secrets, the first floor is obviously a piano nobile, as a hint of the importance of this floor is indicated on the exterior...
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    continues throughout the interior of the palace. The first floor, being the piano nobile, is distinguished by windows taller than those of the floors above and...
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  • below ground level; the lowest part of classical elevation, below the piano nobile. Basilica Originally a Roman, large roofed hall erected for transacting...
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    by massive solid corner projections. Above this is the double-height piano nobile, where five huge arched windows incongruously dominate the facade over...
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    surrounding it. At Devonshire House, Kent's exterior stairs led up to a piano nobile, where the entrance hall was the only room that rose through two storeys...
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    usually built of rusticated stone, was beneath the larger and grander piano nobile occupied by the employers. Ornate external staircases were built to the...
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