For the Rucellai family in Florence Alberti designed several buildings, the façade of Palazzo Rucellai, executed by Bernardo Rosselino, the façade of Santa Maria Novella, the marble-clad shrine of the Holy Sepulchre, and perhaps also the Capella Rucellai.

Another building, for Pope Leo's doctor, the Palazzo di Jacobo da Brescia, was moved in the 1930s but survives ; this was designed to complement a palace on the same street by Bramante, where Raphael himself lived for a time.

Raphael lived in the Palazzo Caprini in the Borgo, in rather grand style in a palace designed by Bramante.

Situated in the upper part of Merchants street and in front of another notable building, Palazzo Parisio, it has a fine facade designed by Romano Carapecchia.

Though he often cooperated in fresco painting with Lanfranco, for example in Annibale designed series the San Diego Chapel in San Giacomo degli Spagnoli ( 1602 – 1607 ) and in Palazzo Costaguti ( Nessus and Deianeira ), Badalocchio never received the same recognition as his peer.

This district was designed in the mid-16th century to accommodate Mannerist palaces of the city's most eminent families, including Palazzo Rosso ( now a museum ), Palazzo Bianco, Palazzo Grimaldi and Palazzo Reale.

Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare, designed by Palladio and built by Vincenzo Scamozzi

He is known for his major contribution to the use of Italianate architecture in Britain, especially the use of the Palazzo as basis for the design of country houses, city mansions and public buildings, he also developed the Italian Renaissance garden style for the many gardens he designed around country houses.

He designed a new façade for the colonnaded Palazzo dei Conservatori and projected an identical structure, the Palazzo Nuovo, for the opposite side of the piazza.

Michelangelo designed a new façade for the dilapidated Palazzo dei Conservatori and he designed the Palazzo Nuovo to be a mirror compliment, thereby providing balance and coherence to the ragged ensemble of existing structures.

Loreto's main monuments occupy the four sides of the piazza: the college of the Jesuits, the Palazzo Comunale ( formerly the Palazzo Apostolico ), designed by Bramante, with an art gallery with works of Lorenzo Lotto, Vouet and Annibale Carracci as well as a collection of maiolica, and the Shrine of the Holy House ( Santuario della Santa Casa ).

Frederick commissioned the Palazzo Te, designed and decorated by Giulio Romano, as his summer palace just outside of Mantua.

At that time, most of the important infrastructures, such as the Palazzo dello Sport ( designed by Nervi and Piacentini ) and the Velodromo were completed.

The famed Palazzo della Signoria was built, designed by Arnolfo di Cambio.

According to Vasari, the statue stood on a column designed by Desiderio da Settignano in the middle of the courtyard of the Palazzo Medici ; an inscription seems to have explained the statue's significance as a political monument: " Victor est quisquis patriam tuetur / Frangit immanis Deus hostis iras / En puer grandem domuit tiramnum / Vincite cives " ( The victor is whoever defends the fatherland.

* The Palazzo Attems Petzenstein ( 19th century ), designed by Nicolò Pacassi.

It is housed in a building designed to emulate a 15th-century Venetian palace, drawing particular inspiration from the Venetian Palazzo Barbaro.

The Palazzo Caetani, still inhabited by the Caetani family, adjoins the Palazzo Mattei.

Just a few yards to the right on the Via Capo Di Ferro will bring you to the Palazzo Spada, built in 1540 and now occupied by the Council of State.

From the Palazzo Spada you continue another block along the Via Capo Di Ferro and Vicolo De Venti to the imposing Palazzo Farnese, begun in 1514 and considered by many to be the finest palace of all.

In 1600 he was called to Parma by Duke Ranuccio I Farnese to began the decoration of the Palazzo del Giardino, but he died before it was finished.

Fra Marino also claims to have been alerted to the existence of the Gospel of Barnabas, from an allusion in a work by Irenaeus against Paul ; in a book which had been presented to him by a lady of the Colonna family ( Marino, outside Rome, is the location of the Palazzo Colonna ).

In the 16th century Sixtus V bisected Bramante's Cortile del Belvedere with a cross-wing to house the Apostolic Library in suitable magnificence. The 16th and 17th centuries saw other privately endowed libraries assembled in Rome: the Vallicelliana, formed from the books of Saint Filippo Neri, with other distinguished libraries such as that of Cesare Baronio, the Biblioteca Angelica founded by the Augustinian Angelo Rocca, which was the only truly public library in Counter-Reformation Rome ; the Biblioteca Alessandrina with which Pope Alexander VII endowed the University of Rome ; the Biblioteca Casanatense of the Cardinal Girolamo Casanate ; and finally the Biblioteca Corsiniana founded by the bibliophile Clement XII Corsini and his nephew Cardinal Neri Corsini, still housed in Palazzo Corsini in via della Lungara. The Republic of Venice patronized the foundation of the Biblioteca Marciana, based on the library of Cardinal Basilios Bessarion. In Milan Cardinal Federico Borromeo founded the Biblioteca Ambrosiana.

He was asked by the consuls of the Guild of Wool to complete an unfinished project begun 40 years earlier by Agostino di Duccio: a colossal statue portraying David as a symbol of Florentine freedom, to be placed in the Piazza della Signoria, in front of the Palazzo Vecchio.

Frederick Barbarossa submits to the authority of Pope Alexander III ( fresco in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, by Spinello Aretino ).

It includes the Palazzo Eucherio Sanvitale, with interesting decorations dating from the 16th centuries and attributed to Gianfrancesco d ' Agrate, and a fresco by Parmigianino.

One of the most eulogistic of these artistic works in its celebration of his reign, is the ' Glorification of the Reign of Urban VIII ' painted by Pietro da Cortona in the large vault of salone of the Palazzo Barberini.

Statue of Pope Urban VIII sculpted by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and his students between 1635 and 1640, and currently on display at the Palazzo dei Conservatori in Rome.

It was established by Pope Paul VI on 15 July 1971 and is based in the Palazzo San Callisto, in Piazza San Callisto, Rome.

Addictional, major examples of Neoclassical architecture in the city includes Palazzo Belgiojoso, former grand Napoleonic residence, and Palazzo Tarsis, built by Luigi Clerichetti for Count Paolo Tarsis in 1834, famous for its ornate façade.

Another noted Neoclassical building in the city is the Palazzo del Governo, constructed in 1817 by Piero Gilardoni.

Possibly one of the most notable Art Nouveau edfices in Milan is Palazzo Castiglioni in Corso Venezia, built by architect Giuseppe Sommaruga between 1901 and 1904.

It was commissioned by the Confraternità dei Cavalieri di San Luigi di Palazzo who presented an annual Good Friday meditation in honor of the Virgin Mary.

A mid-18th century etching of the Palazzo del Quirinale by Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The colossal Roman " Horse Tamers " or Dioscuri are in the foreground, but the obelisk from the Mausoleum of Augustus ( erected 1781-1786 ) has not yet been set up between them.

An etching of the Hill, crowned by the mass of the Palazzo del Quirinale, from a series I Sette Colli di Roma antica e moderna published in 1827 by Luigi Rossini ( 1790-1857 ): His view, from the roof of the palazzo near the Trevi Fountain that now houses the Accademia di San Luca, substituted an imaginary foreground garden for the repetitious roofscape.

In his territorial aggrandizement of the Papal States, Sixtus IV's niece's son Cardinal Raffaele Riario, for whom the Palazzo della Cancelleria was constructed, was a leader in the failed " Pazzi conspiracy " of 1478 to assassinate both Lorenzo de ' Medici and his brother Giuliano and replace them in Florence with Sixtus IV's other nephew, Girolamo Riario.

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After the sack of his native Volterra, Tommaso lives and works in the Palazzo de ' Medici, hating Lorenzo but devoted to Giuliano.

* Facing the cathedral is the unfinished Palazzo Della Rovere ( Della Rovere Palace ), built by Cardinal Giulio della Rovere ( future Pope Julius II ) and designed by Giuliano da Sangallo as a university.

* Palazzo Venieri, designed by Giuliano da Maiano.

* Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power, Pietro da Cortona, Palazzo Barberini

* Palazzo Bellomo, whose museum houses Antonello da Messina's Annunciation ( 1474 ).

The Palazzo Strozzi in Florence commissioned composer Bruce Adolphe to create a work based on Bronzino poems, and the piece, " Of Art and Onions: Homage to Bronzino ", features a prominent viola da gamba part.

* The Signoria of Florence commissions both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to paint the walls of the Grand Council Chamber in the Palazzo Vecchio.

There are also several fine late Gothic buildings, including the Palazzo Benincasa, the Palazzo del Senato and the Loggia dei Mercanti, all by Giorgio da Sebenico, and the prefecture, which has Renaissance additions.

* Palazzo Spada ( 16th century ), by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger.

The Natività ( Nativity ) of Andrea Sabatini ( called " Andrea da Salerno " when he worked in the Cappella Sistina ) can be seen inside the " Palazzo Pinto " of the " Pinacoteca Provinciale "

* Palazzo Barbaran da Porto, home of the Museo Palladio ;

Her studio and art school are located in the Palazzo da Schio on Corso Palladio.

In the game, one of the objectives is to get the protagonist Ezio Auditore da Firenze to fly a hang-glider built for him by Leonardo da Vinci into the Palazzo Ducale.

Bramante was born in Monte Asdrualdo ( now Fermignano ), under name Donato di Pascuccio d ' Antonio, near Urbino: here, in 1467 Luciano Laurana was adding to the Palazzo Ducale an arcaded courtyard and other features that seemed to have the true ring of a reborn antiquity to Federico da Montefeltro's ducal palace.

Attractions on the island include the Church of Santa Maria e San Donato ( known for its twelfth century Byzantine mosaic pavement and said to house the bones of the dragon slain by Saint Donatus ), the church of San Pietro Martire with the chapel of the Ballarin family built in 1506 and artworks by Giovanni Bellini, and the Palazzo da Mula.

Examples include Pietro da Cortona's Allegory of Divine Providence in the Palazzo Barberini and Andrea Pozzo's Apotheosis of St Ignatius on the ceiling of the Roman church of Sant ' Ignazio.

* The main attraction of Urbino is the Palazzo Ducale, begun in the second half of the 15th century by Federico II da Montefeltro.

* 1569-1575: Palazzo Barbaran da Porto ( for Montano Barbarano ), Vicenza

* 1987: Fabio Mariano ( Editor ) and Marcello Agostinelli, Francesco di Giorgio e il Palazzo della Signoria a Jesi, edizioni Cassa di Risparmio di Jesi, Jesi 1986, with Maria Luisa Polichetti ( Editor ), Il Palazzo di Federico da Montefeltro.

Born in Bologna, he trained under Giulio Romano in Mantua and became a pupil of Innocenzo da Imola, executing decorations at the Palazzo Te before securing a position in the court of Francis I of France in 1532.

* Palazzo Michieli-Bonato, with a façade frescoed by Jacopo da Bassano.