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== The Medici Rail Terminal ==

[[:Image:PetersburgSt.jpg]] IMO: it is a mixture of various periods of Renaissance. The first floor is 15th century Renaissance, almost trying to hint at the former Gothic style, although that design with the central loggia would have been on a piano nobile not the ground. See if you can find an image of [[Palazzo Rucellai]] by Alberti in Firenze - he uses the same windows and pilasters. though his pilaster are flat.

The upper floor of of a later 16th century Renaissance inspiration. The parapet is far later, the pillars should not have been taken that far up, but terminated directly below, and a shallow hipped roof with an overhang should have been plonked on the top. That form of parapet did not appear until the late 1590s. Now for the tower - Well it is in the spirit of the design - if Alberti had had to design railway stations he probably would not have designed one like that, but the tower is not as funny as it seems [[Martino Longhi]] added a (slightly) similar tower (a campanile) to the Michaelangelo's [[Palazzo Senatorio]] in Rome in the very early 17th century. Ironically some one has added a clock to that one two. I expect some people will think I am being very fanciful there though and declare the tower Second Empire or Beaux arts. I like my theory better. If you took the lettering off the parapet and painted the building a proper ochre, or transformed the whole to rusticated stone work, no one would give it a second glance. [[User:Giano|Giano]] | [[User talk:Giano|talk]] 09:38, 10 May 2006 (UTC)