Description
Antique Cupola from northern Spain.
It is late XVIII C. or early XIX C.
In architecture, a cupola is a small,
most-often dome-like structure,
on top of a building.[1]
Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air,
it usually crowns a larger roof or dome.[2][3]
The word derives, via Italian,
from the lower Latin cupula
(classical Latin cupella from the Greek kypellon)
small cup (lat. cupa) indicating a vault resembling an upside down cup.
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