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cinque cento
Architecture; General architecture
Style which became prevalent in Italy in the century following 1500, now usually called 16th-century work. It was the result of the revival of classic architecture known as Renaissance, but the ...
pseudo-peripteral
Architecture; General architecture
Temple in which the columns surrounding the naos have had walls built between them, so that they become engaged columns, as in the great temple at Agrigentum. In Roman temples, in order to increase ...
dodecastyle
Architecture; General architecture
Temple where the portico has twelve columns in front, as in the portico added to the Temple of Demeter at Eleusis, designed by Philo, the architect of the arsenal at the Peiraeus.
dipteral
Architecture; General architecture
Temples which have a double range of columns in the peristyle, as in the temple of Diana at Ephesus.
cleithral
Architecture; General architecture
Term applied to a covered Greek temple, in contradistinction to hypaethral, which designates one that is uncovered; the roof of a cleithral temple completely covers it.
pycnostyle
Architecture; General architecture
Term given by Vitruvius to the intercolumniation between the columns of a temple, when this was equal to 11/2 diameters.
diastyle
Architecture; General architecture
Term used to designate an intercolumniation of three or four diameters.
