Intercolumniation
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Illustration from The Four Books of Architecture by Andrea Palladio, translation by Thomas Ware published in London, 1738
In architecture, intercolumniation is the spacing between columns in a colonnade, as measured at the bottom of their shafts.[1] In classical, Renaissance, and Baroque architecture, intercolumniation was determined by a system devised by the first-century BC Roman architect Vitruvius.[2] Vitruvius compiled standard intercolumniations for the three classical Greek orders, expressed in terms of the column diameter,[1] twice the Vitruvian module, and he warned that when columns are placed three column-diameters or more apart, stone architraves break.[3]
Standard intercolumniations
The standard intercolumniations are:[4]
- Pycnostyle
- One and a half diameters
- Systyle
- Two diameters
- Eustyle
- Two and a quarter diameters (and three diameters between middle columns front and rear); considered by Vitruvius to be the best proportion[5]
- Diastyle
- Three diameters
- Araeostyle
- Four or more diameters, requiring a wooden architrave rather than one of stone
- Araeosystyle
- Alternating araeostyle and systyle
See also
- List of architecture topics
- Architectural glossary
References
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