page_title: Aedicula
section_title: Renaissance aediculae
hierarchical_section_title: Aedicula / Renaissance aediculae
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Una delle celebri finestre "inginocchiate" disegnate (secondo una tradizione peraltro non supportata da documenti) da Michelangelo Buonarroti per le facciate di Palazzo Medici Riccardi a Firenze. Chunque ne sia il reale inventore, queste sono il protootipo di tutte le finestre "inginocchiate", in gran uso in Toscana nel periodo manierista e barocco. English: One among the famous "kneeling windows", allegedly designed by Michelangelo Buonarroti for the facades of Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence, Italy. Whoever the real inventor, these are the prototypes of all "kneeling" windows, much used in Tuscany in the mannerist and baroque periods.
context_page_description: In ancient Roman religion, an aedicula is a small shrine. The word aedicula is the diminutive of the Latin aedes, a temple building, and can translate into English as "aedicule" or "edicule".
  Many aediculae were household shrines that held small altars or statues of the Lares and Penates. The Lares were Roman deities protecting the house and the family household gods. The Penates were originally patron gods of the storeroom, later becoming household gods guarding the entire house.
  Other aediculae were small shrines within larger temples, usually set on a base, surmounted by a pediment and surrounded by columns. In ancient Roman architecture the aedicula has this representative function in the society. They are installed in public buildings like the triumphal arch, city gate, and thermae. The Library of Celsus in Ephesus is a good example. From the 4th century Christianization of the Roman Empire onwards such shrines, or the framework enclosing them, are often called by the Biblical term tabernacle, which becomes extended to any elaborated framework for a niche, window or picture.
context_section_description: Classicizing architectonic structure and decor all'antica, in the "ancient [Roman] mode", became a fashionable way to frame a painted or bas-relief portrait, or protect an expensive and precious mirror during the High Renaissance; Italian precedents were imitated in France, then in Spain, England and Germany during the later 16th century.
caption: Two "tabernacle windows" in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence.  These are of the type known as "inginocchiata", "kneeling" on two brackets.
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