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Identifier: architectureclas00smit (find matches)
Title: Architecture, classic and early Christian
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger), 1830-1903 Slater, John, 1847-1924
Subjects: Architecture Church architecture
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Ltd., St. Dunstan's House, Fetter, Lane, Fleet Street, E.C.
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e orders to be used oneabove another, marking the different stories of a loftybuilding. The columns, or pilasters which took their place, beingreduced to the humble function of ornaments added to thewall of a building, it became very usual to combine themwith arched openings, and to put an arch in the interspacebetween two columns, or, in other words, to add a columnto the pier between two arches (Fig. 146), These archedopenings being often wide, a good deal of disproportionbetween the lieight of the columns and their distanceapart was liable to occur; and, partly to correct this, thecolumn was often mounted upon a pedestal, to which thename of stylobate has been given. It was also sometimes customary to place above theon^ler, or the highest order where more than one wasemployed, what was termed an attic—a low story orna-mented with piers or pilasters. The exterior of theColosseum (Fig. .5), the triumphal arches of Constantino(Fig. 139) and Titus, and the fragments of the upper part
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tuQ. I4ti.—Part op the Theatre of Maecellds, Rome. Showwg the combisatios o*Columns akd Akcheb Openings. ROMAN. 191 of the Forum of Nerva (Fig. 147) may be consulted asillustrations of the combination of an order and an archedopening, and of the use of pedestals and attics.

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