Loggia

A loggia is a recess in withdrawal of Façade forming a roomy space with arcades with columns, often covered, comprising a closing at least on one of its faces and often a communication towards the building on which she is leant, with its back or the top, towards the stages. It is different from the gantry, of the gallery, the Péristyle, even if a Colonnade is present there (see these terms of Architecture).
It appears with the Rebirth, in Italy, and its use is spread in all Europe then by the notoriety of its architects, as much artists and sculptors Italian, recognized like Andrea Orcagna, Giambologna, Michel-Angel, Pietro Tacca, etc.
In modern architecture, in the habitat, this term usually indicates a covered balcony not overflowing of the frontage, without size or the shape of platform or the shape of precise railing.

Examples in Italy (origin of the term)

  • the loggia of Vasari, on the Large Piazza , with Arezzo
  • the loggia of Lionello with Udine
  • the Piazza Loggia with Brescia
  • the loggia of the Villa Garzone , with Pontecasale, hamlet of Candiana
  • the loggia, produce exchange to Venice
  • the loggia Gran Guardia with Padoue
  • the loggia of the Palazzo Pubblico , Cappella di Piazza with His
  • the Municipal loggia of the Teatro of Reggio Emilia
  • frontage in loggia on two stages in Basilica Palladiana of Vicenza
  • the whole frontage in loggias of the Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo in Venice

With Florence

With Rome

  • the loggia built by Michel-Angel with the Palate Farnese, with Rome
  • the loggia of the Villa Farnesina, disappeared since
  • the loggia from the palate from the the Vatican
  • the loggia from honor, Loggia of Onore of the Palais of Quirinal
  • the loggia of the Put dei Cavalieri di Rodi , with the Forum of Trajan

In France

  • the loggia of the Opera Garnier in Paris
  • the loggia of the Large Trianon in Versailles

Elsewhere

  • the loggia Feldherrnhalle with Munich in Germany, on the model of the Loggia dei Lanzi of Florence
  • the loggia of the Rathaus of Poznan, in Poland
  • the loggia of the Libosad park to Nový Jičín in Tchéquie

See too

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