Italianate architecture
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The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and
Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, England, built between 1845 and 1851. It exhibits three typical Italianate features: a prominently bracketed cornice, towers based on Italian campanili and belvederes, and adjoining arched windows.
Cronkhill, designed by John Nash, the earliest Italianate villa in England
Villa Emo by Palladio, 1559. The great Italian villas were often a starting point for the buildings of the 19th-century Italianate style.
Cliveden: Charles Barry's Italianate, Neo-Renaissance mansion with "confident allusions to the wealth of Italian merchant princes."
Belvedere (structure)
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A belvedere or belvidere 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
Italianate architecture
…Tall first floor windows suggesting a piano nobile Belvedere or machicolated signorial towers Cupolas…
Belvederes crown the two towers at the outer corners of Blenheim Palace, United Kingdom
Pashkov House in Moscow, Russia, crowned with a belvedere
A carousel in the Cortile del Belvedere, 1565
Belvedere in the park of the Glienicke Palace, in Berlin