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Definition of Cortile
1. n. An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.
Definition of Cortile
1. Noun. (architecture) An internal courtyard, surrounded by walls but open to the sky ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cortile
1. an enclosed courtyard [n CORTILI]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cortile
Literary usage of Cortile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's House: Or, How to Plan English Residences, from the by Robert Kerr (1865)
"Tliis makes the cortile in every case a difficult subject of design with us.
* If the surrounding apartments were to be formed by the mere symmetrical ..."
2. Villas of Florence and Tuscany by Harold Donaldson Eberlein (1922)
"... North Front page 243 Plate 135, North Door page 244 Plate 136, cortile page
245 Plate 137, Staircase from the cortile page 246 Plate 138, Chapel Door, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"(See Mediterranean Islands, Architecture of.) cortile. ... or principal court;
hence, in English usage the court of aW^'ff' liH cortile OF THE HOUSE CALLED ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The residential portion of the palace is around the cortile di San Dámaso, and
includes also the quarters of the Swiss Guards and of the gendarmes situated ..."
5. Vasari on Technique: Being the Introduction to the Three Arts of Design by Giorgio Vasari (1907)
"The history of this famous cortile forms the subject of an elaborate paper by
Professor Adolf Michaelis in the Jahrbuch of the German Archaeological ..."
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