Cancellaria palace Small 320×266 Medium 640×531 Large 1024×850 Download Tiff Original 2400×1992 | (1.6 MB) Description "A principal and distinctive feature of Italian public buildings and palaces of this time is the cortile (i.e. court-yard), surrounded by open arcades." Keywords arcade, arch, architecture, cortile, courtyard, Italy, Renaissance Galleries Renaissance Architecture Source: N. D'Anvers An Elementary History of Art (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895) 97