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The picture shows the Palazzo Medici Riccardi on the corner of the Via Cavour and the Via de' Gori with the Medici arms on the corner and the arches of the enclosed loggia. The once open corner loggia and shop fronts facing the street were walled in during the 16th century. They were replaced by Michelangelo's unusual ground-floor "kneeling windows" (finestre inginocchiate) with exaggerated scrolling consoles appearing to support the sill and framed in a pedimented aedicule. This influential window designs is known as a kneeling window because of the shape of the consoles supporting the windowsill, which reach almost to the ground like a pair of legs.
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