Italian: "bugnato a cuscino"English translation: Cushion shaped (ashlar) blocks 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | Italian term or phrase: | "bugnato a cuscino" | | English translation: | Cushion shaped (ashlar) blocks | | Entered by: | Russell Jones |
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Italian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Architecture | | Italian term or phrase: "bugnato a cuscino" | | the term refers to a particular kind of ashlar that characterizes the old Genoese urban palaces or religious bulidings |
| | | Cushion shaped (ashlar) blocks | Explanation:
"In the Palazzo Gondi, Giuliano introduces a new system into the traditional Florentine type of rustication;.... The cushion-shaped blocks ....show how fresh charm can be won from a familiar technique." Heydenreich, Ludwig H, (1996) Architecture in Italy 1400 - 1500, Yale. |
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| bugnato a cuscino Cushion shaped (ashlar) blocks
Explanation:
"In the Palazzo Gondi, Giuliano introduces a new system into the traditional Florentine type of rustication;.... The cushion-shaped blocks ....show how fresh charm can be won from a familiar technique." Heydenreich, Ludwig H, (1996) Architecture in Italy 1400 - 1500, Yale.
| Russell Jones
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