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  • noun architecture A small, temple-like building

Etymologies

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From Italian tempietto

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Examples

  • Indeed, the AIA Guide is perhaps the finest-grained study of New York's built environment that exists, a guide in which no Italianate cornice, no Art Nouveau balustrade, no limestone carving or postmodern tempietto seems to go unremarked.

    The Architect's Cookbook 2010

  • The small columns of the porch gave it the name of the tempietto, or little temple, while several personages dear to litterateurs had lived there, from the landscape painter Claude Lorrain to the poet Francois Coppee.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • In the courtyard of the convent, on the spot where St. Peter is supposed by some to have been crucified, stands Bramante's tempietto the most graceful work of that genius.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • The small columns of the porch gave it the name of the tempietto, or little temple, while several personages dear to litterateurs had lived there, from the landscape painter Claude Lorrain to the poet Francois Coppee.

    Cosmopolis — Complete Paul Bourget 1893

  • Cathedral (S. Martino), 161, 257, 258, 260 (+149+); tempietto in same, 281; tomb of P. di Noceto in same, 281 (+164+).

    A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890

  • This tempietto tucked away on a Tiverton, R.I., estate evokes thoughts of a classical arcadia, particularly one re-created by 18th-Century English gentlemen who dotted their picturesque gardens with such follies.

    Projo.com Projo Local News 2010

  • In the little sketch to the extreme left on Pl. LXV, No. 1, the equestrian statue serves to crown a circular temple somewhat resembling Bramante's tempietto of San

    The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485

  • In the little sketch to the extreme left on Pl. LXV, No. 1, the equestrian statue serves to crown a circular temple somewhat resembling Bramante's tempietto of San

    The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 2 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485

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