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An early-15th-century piano nobile at the Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara. Its larger windows indicate its superior status compared with the rooms on the floor below.The Beletage of Dresden's Villa Martha, built in the 1870sAt the 18th-century Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire, the piano nobile is placed above a rusticated ground floor, and reached by an external staircase. The uppermost windows indicate that the upper floor is of far lower status.
Piano nobile (Italian for "noble floor" or "noble level", also sometimes referred to by the corresponding French term, bel étage) is the architectural term for the principal floor of a palazzo. This floor contains the main reception and bedrooms of the house.
The German term is Beletage (meaning "beautiful storey", from the French bel étage). Both date to the 17th century.
Pianonobile (Italian for "noble floor" or "noble level", also sometimes referred to by the corresponding French term, bel étage) is the architectural...
PianoNobile is a commercial art gallery in London, England, specialising in twentieth-century British art. It was established by Dr Robert Travers at...
which is in fact made of pink Derbyshire alabaster; this leads to the pianonobile, or the first floor, and state rooms. The most impressive of these rooms...
the north wing. The principal rooms are contained on the first-floor pianonobile behind the west-facing garden façade at the rear of the palace. The centre...
rooms on the pianonobile, thus there is no great staircase of state: anyone worthy of such state would have no cause to leave the pianonobile. Insofar as...
2016 or 2017 the owner of the dinner service sold the service to the PianoNobile art gallery in London, which then sold the set to the Charleston Trust...
areas closer at hand, but would have put the principal rooms on a raised pianonobile. This would have given the palace not only a more commanding presence...
power of the absolutist monarch Louis XIV. Located on the first floor (pianonobile) of the palace's central body, it faces west towards the palace gardens...
wings are advanced and more prominent. Inside the central block, the pianonobile or main floor opened onto a loggia with a triple arcade, reached by a...
into a sculpture gallery, and the creation of a carriage ramp to the pianonobile on the East front were all declined by Morrison. However, the house was...
Ammanati created a monumental staircase to lead with more pomp to the pianonobile, and he extended the wings on the garden front that embraced a courtyard...
access to the canal surmounted by a pianonobile with open loggias and decorated columns, with a "secondo pianonobile" (secondary floor) above. The comparatively...
day, including the placement of the apartments on the main floor (the pianonobile, the next floor up from the ground level), a convention the architect...
the second floor above. This floor is often referred to as the Italian pianonobile, the French bel étage, or the German beletage. The corps de logis is...
like the principal reception rooms, was placed in the first floor, on a pianonobile in Palladian style, leaving the ground floor free for the domestic and...
by a single window. All principal rooms were on the second floor or pianonobile. Building began in 1567. Neither Palladio nor the owner, Paolo Almerico...
by massive solid corner projections. Above this is the double-height pianonobile, where five huge arched windows incongruously dominate the facade over...
below ground level; the lowest part of classical elevation, below the pianonobile. Basilica Originally a Roman, large roofed hall erected for transacting...
from their northern counterparts by large glazed Serlian windows on the pianonobile of their southern facades. Here the blocks were to appear as of two floors...
Oxford: Phaidon. Shone, Richard (2021). Sickert: The Theatre of Life. PianoNobile, 2021. Sickert, Walter; Hollis, Marianne, Hayward Gallery, Sainsbury...
floor, above which was a pianonobile, formally accessed by an exterior double staircase from the courtyard. Above the pianonobile were the more private...
by a central hall. Flanking the hall, two sets of stairs lead to the pianonobile, a large squared staircase by Bernini to the left and a smaller oval...
continues throughout the interior of the palace. The first floor, being the pianonobile, is distinguished by windows taller than those of the floors above and...
façade betrays some internal secrets, the first floor is obviously a pianonobile, as a hint of the importance of this floor is indicated on the exterior...
ground floor became a rusticated basement, which supported a monumental pianonobile of nine bays. This had no centrepiece but was highlighted by venetian...
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