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Portego ("porch" in
Venetian dialect) is a
characteristic compositional element of the
Venetian civil buildings built during the
years of the Republic...
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Pietro Ricchi In the
traditional structure of the
Venetian palace, the
portego, or p****ing lounge, was the
largest room of the building,
intended to play...
- floor, a
recessed colonnaded loggia gives access to the
entrance hall (
portego de mezo)
directly from the canal.
Above this
colonnade is the enclosed...
- androne,
where they were
stored and
business transacted. Upstairs, the
portego or
salone was
another large room,
centrally placed and
usually T-shaped...
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extravagant designs.
Unique Venetian furniture types included the
divani da
portego, and long
rococo couches and pozzetti,
objects meant to be
placed against...
- dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
Monika Schmitter, "The
Quadro da
Portego in Sixteenth-Century
Venetian Art",
Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 64, No...
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sotoportego Sotoportego along a
canal (Type 2) Rio del
Cappello (Type 3)
Portego "Venice Glossary:
Venice Names and
Numbers by My
Corner of Italy". My Corner...
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pedimented door
frame behind Christ. The
painting was
likely commissioned for a
portego, the
large and
elaborate entrance hall of a
Venetian palace.
Supper at...
- now live. When he
moved in, the
empty picture frames on the
walls of the
portego were
filled with
copies of
family pictures,
including a 15th-century map...
- The
portego is a
broad salon which runs
along the
whole first floor connecting the
Grand Canal façade to the land-side of the building. The
Portego's Canal-side...
