A risalit, from the Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

 risalto for "projection", is a German term which refers to a part of a building that juts out, usually over the full height of the building. In English the French term avant-corps is sometimes used. It is common in façades in the baroque

Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture is a term used to describe the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late sixteenth century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and...

 period.

A corner risalit is where two wings meet at right-angles. Baroque three-winged constructions are often incorporated as a median risalit in a main hall or a stairwell, such as in Weißenstein Palace and the Roßleben Convent School.

Sources

Much of the text of this article comes from the equivalent German-language Wikipedia article retrieved on 18 March 2006.