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As was typical of Florentine palaces of the period, a scheme of graduated rustication was used in which the texture decreased with each successive story. On the ground story, the rusticated texture is created by deep joints and bulging faces rather than from roughened surfaces like those used on many contemporary Florentine palaces. On the piano nobile, the block faces are smooth and flat, and the joints are less prominent than those on the ground story. This form is called rusticated ashlar. On the third story, the block faces are also smooth and flat, but the joints are flush. This form of masonry, in which the dressed blocks are laid with nearly invisible joints, is called ashlar. Some of the joints are incised rather than being actual breaks between blocks.
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