In architecture, an attic is a low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles. The term was introduced in the 17th century and describes a room or rooms behind that part of the exterior and all the rooms immediately below the roof. Research Attic
In architecture, the facade is the front (face or elevation) of a building; especially the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade unfinished, though the interior may be in use. Research Facade
Lombardic is the style of architecture that prevailed in Lombardy and part of Upper Italy, and which for a long time was recognised as a distinct Lombard style, presenting essential points of difference from the other Later Romanesque styles. In the Lombard churches the type of early Christian architecture was abandoned, and the vaulted basilica was introduced instead, although this system was subjected to several necessary modifications.
Many peculiarities assert themselves in which the vaulted basilicas of Lombardy differ from those of other countries. This occurs particularly in the facades , which have not, as has usually the case, a higher central portion and low side divisions, but which present one mass, terminating in a gable above, under the slopes of which, as well as in the choir and dome, are introduced arcade galleries. The separation into central and side divisions, as marking out the nave and the aisles, is only effected in a way that harmonises but indifferently with the whole by means of pilasters and half-columns. Beside the small arcade galleries below the gable, the whole of the facade is frequently decorated with one or more of these rows of arcades one above another, either continuous or grouped, with pilasterstrips between the groups. The west front is sometimes embellished with a large and elegant rose window, which in fact forms one of the chief beauties of the facades of many of the churches in Italy, which are built in the Later Romanesque style. Research Lombardic Architecture
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