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Engaged columns serve a similar function as [[Buttress|wall buttresses]] but are distinct from [[pilasters]], which by definition are ornamental and not structural. |
Engaged columns serve a similar function as [[Buttress|wall buttresses]] but are distinct from [[pilasters]], which by definition are ornamental and not structural. |
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Image:Arc de titus frontal.jpg|Engaged columns embedded in the walls of The [[Arch of Titus]] on the [[Via Sacra]] in [[Rome]] |
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Image:Door in Ostia Antica.jpg|Semi-detached columns flanking a door of the [[Ostia Antica]], in [[Rome]] |
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Image:Villa_on_the_Piazza_dei_Signori_Italy.jpg|Semi-detached columns on the Villa on the ''Piazza dei Signori'' in [[Vicenza]], Italy |
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Image:Zorawina-TheTrinityChurch-entrance.jpg|Semi-detached columns on the The Trinity Church in Żórawina near [[Wrocław]], Poland |
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Image:Cordoba_mihrab.jpg|Engaged columns on the [[Mihrab]] at the [[Mezquita de Córdoba]] |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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Revision as of 19:52, 27 April 2009
In architecture, an engaged column is a column embedded in a wall and partly projecting from the surface of the wall, sometimes defined as semi or three-quarter detached. Engaged columns are rarely found in classical Greek architecture, and then only in exceptional cases, but in Roman architecture they exist in profusion, most commonly embedded in the cella walls of pseudoperipteral buildings
Engaged columns serve a similar function as wall buttresses but are distinct from pilasters, which by definition are ornamental and not structural.
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References
- Stierlin, Henri The Roman Empire: From the Etruscans to the Decline of the Roman Empire, TASCHEN, 2002
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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