Belvedere (structure)

Belvedere (Italian: [ belvede re ː ], literally "beautiful view "; French form: Bellevue ) is a term of architectural history that identifies a building or part of a building that is designed to allow a broad and beautiful views.

A Belvedere can be built at the top of a building or on an elevated site in order to allow the width of the view. The architecture can be of various forms, whether a tower, a dome or an open gallery or loggia. View pavilions in parks can be called Belvedere. In Villenbauten is called the outlook serving small towers as Belvedere tower.

On the hill above the Vatican Palace Antonio Pollaiuolo built a small house, which was called Palazetto or Casino del Belvedere for Pope Innocent VIII. Some years later the architect Donato Bramante Association on behalf of Pope Julius II, the Vatican Palace with the Belvedere, by creating the Cortile del Belvedere elongated ( Courtyard of the Belvedere). In addition, Bramante created on the north side of the Belvedere a building with an octagonal courtyard, which was sometimes also referred to as the Cortile del Belvedere, but usually as Cortile delle Statue. There stood the Apollo Belvedere, one of the most famous ancient statues in the papal collection of art.

The Vatican Belvedere construction was inspiration for many Belvedere buildings of the 16th century.

The Belvedere on the Pfingstberg in Potsdam

Large gazebo curiosity in Potsdam

• Building
• Part of the structure