The vestibule is supported by four marble pillars, but, the intercolumniations having been filled up by Urban VIII.
The style of the architecture was purely Etruscan, and the intercolumniationswere so wide as to require architraves of timber.
White immovable hangings were fastened between them, beneath their capitals, with the exception of the four central intercolumniations of the eastern front, where hung movable curtains of blue, purple, and scarlet linen.
The works of sculpture--the figures which stood in the intercolumniations and the reliefs upon the wall of the cella, and perhaps also upon the substructure--will be considered in the next section.
The columns became even shorter and thicker; they were less diminished and had a more delicately adjusted entasis; the intercolumniations were increased.
The intercolumniations are wide, the shafts excessively diminished, and the curve of the echinos too pronounced.
Even the Temple of Ceres appears to have been Tuscan in general disposition, its cella having been triply divided and its intercolumniations excessively great, as may be seen by the remains of a later restoration still existing in S.
The intercolumniations are narrow, especially those of the front; the pteroma was thus reduced in breadth to less than one and one half times the lower diameter of the columns.
The upper half of the intercolumniations of the court colonnades was also occasionally left open, as shown by Fig.
It is hardly possible that they were placed in antis; for, although the shafts were but thin poles, the six intercolumniations thus formed would have had a width of only one and a half cubits each--too narrow for passage.
The comparatively narrow intercolumniations were the better passages from this absence of projections at the foot of the columns.
If the observer advance from this point toward the Pinakotheke, the windows remain constantly in sight but appear to move more and more toward the middle of the intercolumniations (Fig.
In the inner hypostyle hall at Abydos the intercolumniations which lead respectively to the seven sanctuaries vary in width (Fig.
Pluteus in the intercolumniations of the portico in the second court of the Ramesseum.
Pluteus in the intercolumniations of the portico in the second court of the Ramesseum 134.
Sometimes intercolumniations vary at points where we should expect uniformity, as in the outer court of Luxor (Fig.
Pseudodipteral; with a single row of columns on each side, whose distance from the wall is equal to two intercolumniations of the front.
Pillars are distant one from another by more convenient Proportion: Its Intercolumniations have all two Diameters and a quarter, except theIntercolumniations in the middle of the Face before and behind, which have three Diameters.
Blocks of tufa long enough to span the intercolumniations were too weak to sustain the weight of the rest of the entablature.
They are Doric but of slender proportions, the height, 101/2 feet, being equal to eight diameters, while the intercolumniations measure about nine feet.
The entablature must have been of stone, otherwise the intercolumniations would not have been so narrow.
In the intercolumniations of the decorated zone niches, arcades and windows take the place of the traditional moulding,[297] and the upper wall is broken by a row of arches or of windows.
The width of the intercolumniations bears no relation to the width of the wing; a space remains over at the outer end which is awkwardly filled by two small blind arched niches, placed one above the other.
In the central of the five intercolumniations is placed the door from the corridor.
It is rare to find more than one door; where doors are placed in the flanking intercolumniations they are insignificant in size, as in the Corinthian tomb.
The second great distinction is the systematic use of the archivolt at Ctesiphon for all the secondary intercolumniations in the wings.
Those who would make the metopes all alike, make the outermost intercolumniations narrower by half the width of a triglyph.
On the other hand, in pycnostyles, if an eighth part is given to the thickness, it will make the shaft look swollen and ungraceful, because the intercolumniations are so close to each other and so narrow.
The middleintercolumniations in front and in the rear will each measure three modules.
In these ways all defects will be corrected, whether in metopes or intercolumniations or lacunaria, as all the arrangements have been made with uniformity.
Thus there will be a space, the width of two intercolumniations plus the thickness of the lower diameter of a column, all round between the walls and the rows of columns on the outside.
The three intercolumniations between the antae and the columns should be closed by low walls made of marble or of joiner's work, with doors in them to afford passages into the pronaos.
Intercolumniations of peristyles should be not less than three nor more than four times the thickness of the columns.
As a result of this division, the intercolumniations and the heights of the columns will be in due proportion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intercolumniations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
