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A belvedere or belvidere (from Italian for "beautiful view") is an architectural structure sited to take advantage of a fine or scenic view. The term has been used both for rooms in the upper part of a building or structures on the roof, or a separate pavilion in a garden or park. The actual structure can be of any form or style, including a turret, a cupola or an open gallery. The term may be also used for a paved terrace or just a place with a good viewpoint, but no actual building. It has also been used as a name for a whole building, as in the Belvedere, Vienna, a huge palace, or Belvedere Castle, a folly in Central Park in New York.


Examples

On the hillside above the Vatican Palace, (circa 1480-1490), Antonio del Pollaiuolo built a small pavilion (''casino'' in Italian) named the ''palazzetto'' or the Belvedere for
Pope Innocent VIII Pope Innocent VIII ( la, Innocentius VIII; it, Innocenzo VIII; 1432 – 25 July 1492), born Giovanni Battista Cybo (or Cibo), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 29 August 1484 to his death in July 1492. Son of th ...
. Some years later Donato Bramante linked the Vatican with the Belvedere, a commission from Pope Julius II, by creating the Cortile del Belvedere ("Courtyard of the Belvedere"), in which stood the '' Apollo Belvedere'', among the most famous of antique sculptures. This began the fashion in the 16th century for the belvedere.


Gallery

Image:Cortile.del.belvedere.1.jpg, A carousel in the Cortile del Belvedere, 1565. File:Klein-Glienicke, Park, Aussichtspavillon Grosse Neugierde.jpg, Belvedere in the park of the Glienicke Palace, in Berlin. File:Tour du Belvedere.JPG, Tour du Belvédère, Mulhouse in Alsace File:Johnsons' Goat Tower, brightened.jpg, Johnson's Belvedere, Goat Tower in Texas, US File:Le kiosque du Jardin des Plantes (Paris).jpg, Gloriette de Buffon in the Jardin des plantes in Paris. File:HaldonBelvedere Devon England.PNG, Haldon Belvedere, in Devon, UK. Image:Musei vaticani - cortile del Belvedere 01137-9.JPG, Patio of the Cortile del Belvedere in the Vatican. File:Pražský hrad, Letohrádek královny Anny 02.jpg, Belvedere of Queen Anne's Summer Palace in the garden of Prague Castle (1538-1560) File:Wien SchloBBelvedere03.jpg, Belvedere, Vienna File:Belvedere auf dem Pfingstberg in Potsdam Juli 2014.jpg, Il Belvedere on the Pfingstberg in Potsdam File:Vatican Museum pinecone.jpg, Cortile del Belvedere, Vatican File:Giardino di Villa Spada, il balconcino.jpg, Belevedere of the Villa Spada in Bologna File:ShrubsHillTower WindsorGreatPark 18thCentury.jpg, "Shrubs Hill Tower", Windsor
Renamed " Fort Belvedere". File:Belvedere Castle, Central Park.jpg, Belvedere Castle, Central Park, New York.


See also

* ''Belvedere'' (M. C. Escher), a picture by M. C. Escher which shows an impossible belvedere * Gazebo * Gloriette * Widow's walk


General references

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