# Palazzo Gondi: Courtyard [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SANGALLO, Giuliano da]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary The courtyard was oriented at a right angle to the façade so that its narrow, two-bay width would not be noticeable from the vestibule. The presence of a staircase along one side of the courtyard is an unusual feature in courtyard design. Staircases were usually positioned at a right angle to or in alignment with one of the courtyard loggias. Although the use of a staircase along one side of a courtyard was uncommon in fifteenth-century domestic palaces, it did have precedents in late-Medieval civic palaces <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/zzzarchi/13c/3/1/2flore22.html'\)" href="/html/zzzarchi/13c/3/1/2flore22.html">like the Palazzo Bargello</a> in Florence. The double-urn shape of the staircase's balusters was a form that Giuliano favoured and used elsewhere in this palace as well as at other sites. ## Related artworks - [Design for the façade of San Lorenzo, Florence]() - [Exterior]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Interior view]() - [Interior view]() - [Interior view]() - [Judith]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()