Palazzo Medici Riccardi
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The Palazzo Medici, also called the Palazzo Medici Riccardi after the later family that acquired and expanded it, is a Renaissance palace located in Florence, Italy. It is the seat of the Metropolitan City of Florence and a museum.
The palace's Renaissance facade with its rusticated stone walls
Michelangelo's "kneeling windows", a feature later copied by the Medici at their Palazzo Pitti, also in Florence
Sforza was himself depicted in the chapel's fresco.
Gozzoli, the procession of the Magi
Rustication (architecture)
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Rustication is a range of masonry techniques used in classical architecture giving visible surfaces a finish texture that contrasts with smooth, squared-block masonry called ashlar. The visible face of each individual block is cut back around the edges to make its size and placing very clear. In addition the central part of the face of each block may be given a deliberately rough or patterned surface.
Extreme Mannerist "cyclopian" rustication at the Palace of Fontainebleau
Illustration to Serlio, rusticated doorway of the type now called a Gibbs surround, 1537
Courtyard of Somerset House in London, mostly smooth-faced "V" joints, but with vermiculated square blocks around the Gibbs surround to the door