There are endless instances of spiral colonnettes on the facades of Romanesque churches of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
When the later Comacines worked in more florid Romanesque style, the Baptisteries were often covered with little galleries or rows of colonnettes like those of Pisa, Parma, Lucca, etc.
The colonnettes in these four galleries are fifty-eight in number, some of rosso antico, others of the black and gold-streaked Luna marble.
The eaves with the airy gallery of colonnettesbeneath them followed the exact line of the low-pitched roof.
On two other sides the colonnettes are smaller and shorter, but still graceful; they terminate in varied and bizarre capitals surmounted by a kind of bracket on which the large stones of the upper building rest.
The walls above the central nave terminate in a sculptured string course, and over that a clerestory, the double Lombard arches of which are divided by marblecolonnettes with sculptured capitals.
The grand vestibule of the principal door of Parma cathedral, with its lion-supported columns, its bands of colonnettes and its rich sculpture, was designed by him.
Noyon showed constructive agility in concentrating its wall ribs and diagonals on a single shaft, which meant only three clusteredcolonnettes from main piers to vault-springing.
To have made Soissons' curving wall of arches and colonnettes proves him to have been, not only well practiced in mason-craft, but a man of genius who had visions.
For ten feet above the ground the walls are heavy; then they become a mere shell, skillfully doubled by the use of colonnettes of durable stone, each slender shaft being so weighted that it stands with the security of iron.
Their profiles are alike, their capitals have similar salient crockets, and their colonnettes were cut from the quarry according to the rock's horizontal strata, and not by the usual method of vertical cutting.
Remains of the 12th century chapter-house ogives, colonnettes and capitals, as well as an old chimney-piece, have been rebuilt into the kitchens.
The North Transept= Three small white marble Gallo-Roman or Carolingian capitals crown the colonnettes of the triforium.
The groups of small columns which support the ribs of the vaulting rest upon a corbel-table carried by three consoles (photo above), which in turn rest on colonnettes with crocketed capitals.
Colonnettes in the great bays of the steeple (in ruins) carry carved 12th century capitals.
The façade, over which rise two handsome spires, is of white sandstone, with colonnettes of dark Volvic lava.
The sanctuary is surrounded by a screen composed of slender colonnettes standing diagonally, and is shut off from the nave by a beautiful rood-loft.
Gables and dormers alike are built in diminishing stages, each step adorned with a console or scroll, and the whole treated with pilasters or colonnettes and entablatures breaking over each support (Fig.
In shape it is a temple, the rounded roof being supported by elegant colonnettes of painted wood.
Sometimes, however, as at Medamot, it is formed of six large and six small colonnettes in alternation.
The façade is often decorated with slender colonnettes of painted wood, which bear no weight, and merely serve to lighten the somewhat severe aspect of the exterior.
Mark's, Venice, as do the harmonious tone of the interior and the colonnettes of precious marbles of the pulpit.
Some are cipollino, and two are apparently cut from antique columns, one having four shafts attached to the central cylindrical mass, and the corresponding one on the other side being panelled, with octagonalcolonnettes attached.
In the third the windows have three lights and coupled colonnettes beneath a similar arch, but the story is loftier.
Behind the church is the first cloister, surrounded by an arcade resting on coupled octagonal colonnettes with unmoulded round arches, divided into groups of six by piers.
The door itself has spiral and simple colonnettes in the jambs, with corresponding arch moulds of four orders.
It is vaulted in three bays, with twisted colonnettes in the angles of the piers.
In the top story (which is as deep as two of those below) there are four lights with coupled colonnettes and a square framing round them; a cornice slightly projecting and a balustrade complete the perpendicular part.
The next stage has twisted colonnettes at the angles, the third squat single shafts, and on a little crowning member pierced with four arches stands a gilded angel, the rest of the canopy being octagonal.
The screen has two octagonal colonnettes with a cable necking, and rough caps with volutes, but no foliations support an arch beneath a steep gable; a Latin cross with griffins crouching on each side fills the space between.
The colonnettesand arch moulds are both twisted in this door; in that to the right they are plain; the figures on brackets are similar.
The shelf or cymatium of the entablature has round corners and is supported by pilaster projections above the colonnettes at each end and by a projecting central panel, all of these projections being vertical fluted in the frieze portion.
The engaged colonnettes of the mullions contrast pleasingly with the pilasters of the frame, each of the two supporting an entablature notable for its fine-scale dentil course, and these two in turn supporting a keyed, molded arch.
These groups consist of three niches of equal size, with a pair of colonnettes between the central and the flanking niches.
In what relation the triple colonnettes stood to the niche arches is not clear.
Within the large arches there is a system of small blind arched niches flanked by slender engaged colonnettes of which little trace remains.
Sometimes they imported stone from Ahwâz for the columns of their riwâqs, and sometimes wood; sometimes they raised columns of stone masonry, or again they combined brick piers with colonnettes of marble.
They were not regarded as necessary to the arch, for on the outer side of each pair they are absent, and the same applies to the colonnettes and arches in the upper register of this zone.
It is not, however, strictly correct to describe the colonnettes either at ‘Ammân or at Ukhaiḍir as being without capitals.
At Ctesiphon the capitals and bases (if bases there were) of the columns and colonnettes were moulded in stucco and have disappeared.
In the lower register there are five pairs of niches, with three engaged colonnettes between.
The colonnetteshave no bases; a narrow impost serves them as capital.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colonnettes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
