Araeosystyle
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Great West Door of St. Paul's Cathedral in London
Araeosystyle (Gr. αραιος, "widely spaced", and συστυλος, "with columns set close together"), an architectural term applied to a colonnade, in which the intercolumniation is alternately wide and narrow, as in the case of the western porch of St Paul's Cathedral and the east front of the Louvre by Perrault.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Chisholm 1911, p. 312.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Araeosystyle". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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