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Court of honor (architecture), the Glossary

A court of honor (cour d'honneur; Ehrenhof) is the principal and formal approach and forecourt of a large building.^[1]

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Courtyards

Alexander Palace

The Alexander Palace (Александровский дворец, Alexandrovskiy dvorets) is a former imperial residence near the town of Tsarskoye Selo in Russia, on a plateau about south of Saint Petersburg.

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Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio (Andrea Paładio; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic.

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Apeldoorn

Apeldoorn (Dutch Low Saxon: Apeldoorne) is a municipality and city in the province of Gelderland in the centre of the Netherlands.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.

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Blenheim Palace

Blenheim Palace is a country house in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England.

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Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace is a royal residence in London, and the administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom.

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Burlington House

Burlington House is a building on Piccadilly in Mayfair, London.

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Carlo Maderno

Carlo Maderno or Maderna (1556 – 31 January 1629) was an Italian architect, born in today's Ticino, Switzerland, who is remembered as one of the fathers of Baroque architecture.

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Carlton House

Carlton House, sometimes Carlton Palace, was a mansion in Westminster, best known as the town residence of King George IV, particularly during the regency era and his time as prince regent.

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Corps de logis

In architecture, a corps de logis is the principal or main block, or central building of a mansion, country or manor house, castle, or palace.

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Courtyard

A courtyard or court is a circumscribed area, often surrounded by a building or complex, that is open to the sky. Court of honor (architecture) and courtyard are courtyards.

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George IV

George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 29 January 1820 until his death in 1830.

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Gilded Age

In United States history, the Gilded Age is described as the period from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction Era and the Progressive Era.

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Gilding

Gilding is a decorative technique for applying a very thin coating of gold over solid surfaces such as metal (most common), wood, porcelain, or stone.

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The Hôtel de Besenval is a historic hôtel particulier in Paris with a cour d'honneur and a large English landscape garden, an architectural style commonly known as entre cour et jardin. This refers to a residence between the courtyard in front of the building and the garden at the back.

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Hôtel particulier

Hôtel particulier is the French term for a grand urban mansion, comparable to a British townhouse.

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Henry Holland (architect)

Henry Holland (20 July 1745 – 17 June 1806) was an architect to the English nobility.

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Het Loo Palace

Het Loo Palace (Paleis Het Loo, meaning "The Lea") is a palace in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, built by the House of Orange-Nassau.

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Horst Wolfgang Böhme

Horst Wolfgang Böhme (born May 1, 1940 in Szczecin) is a German archaeologist with a focus on Late Antiquity / Early Middle Ages and research into castles.

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Ionic order

The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian.

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Madison Avenue

Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States, that carries northbound one-way traffic.

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Mansion

A mansion is a large dwelling house.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Noordeinde Palace

Noordeinde Palace (Paleis Noordeinde) is one of three official palaces of the Dutch royal family.

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Palace

A palace is a large residence, often serving as a royal residence or the home for a head of state or another high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop.

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Palace of Versailles

The Palace of Versailles (château de Versailles) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France.

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Palais-Royal

The Palais-Royal is a former French royal palace located on Rue Saint-Honoré in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.

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Palazzo Barberini

The Palazzo Barberini (Barberini Palace) is a 17th-century palace in Rome, facing the Piazza Barberini in Rione Trevi.

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Palazzo Farnese

Palazzo Farnese or Farnese Palace is one of the most important High Renaissance palaces in Rome.

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Palazzo Pitti

The Palazzo Pitti, in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast, mainly Renaissance, palace in Florence, Italy.

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Pall Mall, London

Pall Mall is a street in the St James's area of the City of Westminster, Central London.

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Quadrangle (architecture)

In architecture, a quadrangle (or colloquially, a quad) is a space or a courtyard, usually rectangular (square or oblong) in plan, the sides of which are entirely or mainly occupied by parts of a large building (or several smaller buildings). Court of honor (architecture) and quadrangle (architecture) are courtyards.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_honor_(architecture)

Also known as Cour d'Honneur, Entre cour et jardin.

Court of honor (architecture), the Glossary

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