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colonnade (kŏlənād`), a row of columns usually supporting a roof. Colonnades were popular with the Greeks and Romans, who employed them in the stoa stoa (stō`ə), in ancient Greek architecture, an extended, roofed colonnade on a street or square. ..... Click the link for more information. and the portico portico (pôr`tĭkō) ..... Click the link for more information. ; they have continued to be used throughout the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and modern times. See column column, vertical architectural support, circular or polygonal in plan. A column is generally at least four or five times as high as its diameter or width; stubbier freestanding masses of masonry are usually called piers or pillars, particularly those with a ..... Click the link for more information. . colonnadeRow of columns generally supporting an entablature, used either as an independent feature (e.g., a covered walkway) or as part of a building (e.g., a portico). The earliest colonnades appear in the temple architecture of ancient Greece. In a basilica, colonnades are used to separate the side aisles from the central space. See also stoa. colonnade 1. a set of evenly-spaced columns 2. a row of regularly spaced trees colonnade [‚käl·ə′nād] (architecture) A series of columns placed at regular intervals. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Here is to be found the remains of a great colonnaded hall, in its day as sublimely beautiful and solemn as the greatest of ancient Egypt's hypostyle halls. The colonnaded edifices, invented as a building style in 600 B. At the museum's New York debut last spring, the walls extended 200m along a West Side pier, and the linear, colonnaded interior recalled Venice's Corderia. |
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