The small colonnade at Labna is an example in point.
He believed them to mark the site of the market-place of the ancient city, and found in the columns the supports for that low colonnade which, he pointed out, was known to have bordered the market-places in Mexico at the time of the Conquest.
In the four corners of the colonnade there are eight panels, grouped by twos as follows: Spring and Seed Time; Summer and Fruition; Autumn and Harvest; and Winter and Festivity.
The plan with its four cut-corners with fountains, and its half-dome facing down the longcolonnade to the bay, is ingenious.
The slender "Stars" along the top of the colonnade are the work of A.
The gallery above the colonnade adds to the suggestion of the sunny South.
The high attic story or frieze above thecolonnade is remarkably rich, with its orange brown panels garlanded with green and red fruits, and decorated with Caryatid pilasters.
The terrace outside of the colonnade is 25 feet wide, and the pronaos or walk within the colonnade, including the column space, 25 feet.
Within the thickness of this wall, staircases descend to a lower gallery over the plafond of the proanos of the colonnade lighted from above.
The Colonnade of Herod was easily found; thence to the brazen gates, under a continuous marble portico, he passed with a multitude mixed of people from all the trading nations of the earth.
As a Greek term, [Greek: xystos] means a colonnade of large dimensions in which athletes exercise in the winter time.
A peristyle that has one such higher colonnade is called a Rhodian peristyle.
This kind of colonnade is called among the Greeks [Greek: xystos], because athletes during the winter season exercise in covered running tracks.
In everything else it is the same as the dipteral, but inside it has two tiers of columns set out from the wall all round, like the colonnade of a peristyle.
At Smyrna there is the Stratoniceum, at Tralles, a colonnade on each side of the scaena above the race course, and in other cities which have had careful architects there are colonnades and walks about the theatres.
On the next day Lincoln again stood on the easterncolonnade of the Capitol, again to swear fidelity to the Republic, her Constitution, and laws; but, how changed the scene from his first inauguration.
He was perfectly cool, and stepping to the eastern colonnade of the Capitol, that voice, which had been often heard by tens of thousands on the prairies of the West, now read in clear and ringing tones his inaugural.
Suppose that we trace from Plate IV so much of the colonnade as will leave out two of the end columns and four of those on the flank, and then put a corresponding pediment and entablature, which proportion shall we prefer?
The columns of this colonnade are entirely antique, excepting repairs and slight alterations.
Plate XV gives the interior of this building as drawn by Gutensohn for the great work of Bunsen: the late alteration which spoils the uniformity of the colonnade on either side being ignored.
It was a long oval hall, the whole of one side opening by a marble colonnade upon a court or garden, in which the eye rested gratefully upon cool fountains and statues of whitest marble, half sheltered by orange-trees.
In the spring the breath of his violet beds would be as soft and sweet as in Oxfordshire woods to-day; in the summer his quadrangle would be gay with calthae, and his colonnade festooned with roses and helichryse.
Bologna I go from colonnade to colonnade In streets that Dante trod, and past the towers Aslant toward heaven, and listen to the hours Chimed by the bells of choirs where Dante prayed.
In the older we have a central pyramid with a colonnade round it, in the newer may be found an open court in front of rock-cave shrines.
Outside this wall was an opencolonnade of square pillars.
Pharaoh's Bed and the colonnade have been firmly underpinned in cement masonry, and there is little doubt that the actual stability of Philae is now more certain than that of any other temple in Egypt.
And we went to the sea-shore forest, through a long colonnade of pines, Where the skies peep in and the sea, with a flitting of silver lines.
She looked over toward the palace of the Aquarium, glistening white between the colonnade of trees.
There seems to have been only a plain wall on the left of this court, while on the right there was a long colonnade which masked a number of chambers cut in the rock which rose immediately behind it.
On the left the remains of a double colonnade exist, which must at one time have extended along at least two sides of the quadrangle.
Facing the entrance to the court there was also a colonnade which was cut in two by the steps leading to the fourth and highest terrace.
The Cathedral, a fine edifice, enclosed by a dilapidated colonnade (originally the Mausoleum of Diocletian) is now dedicated to the Virgin and St. Diomo.
Doerpfeld for the colonnade is that access might be had to the Nike temple.
There is, of course, no gainsaying that a colonnade was at one time projected for the west side of the wing, but does this fact in any wise exclude the possibility of a still earlier plan?
The west facade in Greek times as in Roman was simply a compression together in one plane of colonnade and wall--a combination to which the architect was forced by the curtailment of his plan.
The wall below the westerncolonnade was a substitute for the higher ground level of the east side.
The east facade of the Erechtheum and the Pinakotheke both illustrate the same law that door and windows behind a colonnade shall be simultaneously visible from before the colonnade.
The position of the anta at the eastern end of the lesser colonnade is also fixed by the requirement that it stand directly beneath a triglyph.
The balustrade which crowns a colonnade is a repetition, in some sort, of thecolonnade itself.
It was framed by a colonnade supported by two dozen pillars painted red on the lower, and white on the upper half.
She used to sit in the colonnade when it was warm, and the maids with red handkerchiefs on their heads carried shawls for her.
The castle was on a hill, and it had a colonnade leading down to the Weichsel, which was at the foot of the hill.
In the early Christian churches in Rome, where a colonnade divided off the nave and aisles, discharging arches are turned in the frieze just above the architraves.
His study window looked out through a colonnade of trees upon the hill-side cemetery--a furlong distant--where he now sleeps in a spot he loved and chose for his sepulchre.
