Much importance was attached to the entrance portico, which was deeper than those in Greek temples, and the peristyle when it existed was rarely carried round the back.
Stevenson, these steps were over the peristyle only, and that the lofty steps which constituted the meta were in the centre, carried by the inner row of columns.
There were eight columns in front and a double peristyle round.
The Etruscan cella is dispensed with; and what may be looked upon as the semblance of a Greek peristyle is retained in the semi-detached columns which are carried round the walls of the cella.
On the upper part of the cella wall and under the peristyle was the Panathenaic frieze, of which, as also of the other sculptures, the British Museum possesses the finest examples.
Those which are peculiar to the country are square tombs, with a pyramidal stone roof all built in horizontal courses, and either enclosed with a peristyle all round, on one or two storeys, or having a portico in front with flat stone roof.
Base, capital, and section of entablature from the colonnade of the peristyle in the house of the Vettii.
In large houses both atrium and peristyle were sometimes duplicated.
Among the best examples of ornamental carving is the marble table leg in the form of a sphinx, found in the second peristyle of the house of the Faun (Fig.
In one respect it resembles the oldest Pompeian houses, such as that of the Surgeon; in the place of the peristyle is a garden extending back from a colonnade at the rear of the tablinum.
Vestibule Fauces Ala Atrium Tablinum Peristyle Fish pond] The atrium is 41 by 29 feet.
At the left of the peristyleis a passage (15) leading to a garden which has not yet been excavated.
A bronze statue of Apollo playing the cithara, found in the middle peristyle (Fig.
Another painting worthy of more than passing mention was found on a wall of the peristyle (at o), and removed to the Naples Museum.
At the rear of the secondperistyle is a series of small rooms (q-u) the depth of which varies according to the deviation of the street at the north end of the insula.
The living rooms are grouped about a single atrium (2) and a large peristyle (9).
We have already noticed the two bronze groups in the peristyle of the house of the Vettii, each representing a boy holding a duck, from the bill of which sprang a jet of water (Fig.
The tablinum becomes an apse; the court, roofed over, becomes the nave; the side wings of the peristyle become the aisles.
The peristyle adjoined the inner court on the other side of the balcony toward the rear--not in the usual way, but at the left side and on that account was of greater extent and more splendid appearance than any other in Pompeii.
Just as lifelessly as yesterday, the vestibule, inner court and peristyle received him, and between the pillars of the latter the poppies of the dining-room flamed across to him.
He flies across Paris like a rocket, and reaches the peristyle of the Theatre Favart.
I met Foedora under the peristyle of the Bouffons.
His raillery made me think that Rastignac wished to joke and excite my curiosity, so that I was in a paroxysm of my extemporized passion by the time that we stopped before a peristyle full of flowers.
But to be without flowers, without a peristyle commanding a landscape of garden and lake and trees and mountains!
A quarter of an hour had elapsed since Corbulo entered the peristyle of the villa, when the young man Lamia came out.
Sometimes however only one side is enclosed, with a peristyle or covered walk, over which, if the house has more than one story, there is a gallery of the same dimensions, supported by columns and protected by a balustrade.
It stands on a platform, and is encompassed by a quadrilateral peristyle of 30 Roman-Corinthian columns surmounted by a plain architrave, scroll frieze, sculptured dentils, and a fluted cornice.
The court of the mosque is shaded by three magnificent plantain trees, and the fountain which faces the peristyle is remarkable from its basin containing cold water, and its pipes pouring forth warm.
The exterior of the Temple is very handsome, the whole facade being adorned with a peristyle of white marble, and the great entrance approached by a noble flight of steps.
Palace of Fine Arts The Rotunda and Peristyle The Palace of Fine Arts is, in reality, not one complete building, but four separate and distinct elements.
Zenis Newton, photo Palace of Fine Arts--The Peristyle and Laguna Palace of Fine Arts--In the Peristyle Walk.
Palace of Fine Arts The Rotunda from the Peristyle From any point in the peristyle of the Palace of Fine Arts and under any atmospheric conditions, either by day or by night; the vistas are peculiarly satisfying and charming.
Zenis Newton, photo Palace of Fine Arts--The Peristyle Walk by Night.
The conception of the rotunda is said to have been suggested to the architect by Becklin's painting "The Island of the Dead" and that of the peristyle by Gerome's "Chariot Race.
By the indirect system of illumination, an effect as of strong moonlight is produced and from concealed sources, under cornices or behind columns, a soft reflected radiance pervades peristyle and rotunda.
Palace of Fine Arts The Peristyle Walk by Night Of all the wonderful night effects of the Exposition grounds none are so full of haunting beauty as the vistas afforded by the Palace of Fine Arts and its surroundings.
At last she struck the right path, and finally ran out into the peristyle of her own rooms, very much relieved in mind and temper, and scant of breath.
By these he was satisfied, on inquiry, that the Emperor was at ease after his meal, and he went on into a peristyle or open hall, of magnificent proportions, surrounded by a pillared portico.
He felt that his short sword and poniard were loose in their scabbards, then entered theperistyle before him.
Beyond was the vista of the entire length of the house, through its columns and peristyle to a portico and ornamental garden beyond.
Its pronaos and pediments were resplendent with marble, whilst the vestibule and peristyle were adorned with the richest friezes and the noblest statues.
Behind the peristyle the walls were hung with beautiful pictures created by artists long since dead, Parrhasius and Apelles, Evenor and Zeuxis; each painting was framed with a panel of exquisite mosaic.
The columns and wall at the extreme end of the peristyle were a mass of ruins, through the gigantic rents of which loomed a grassy hillock, its sides partially covered with clumps of furze.
The peristyle of the dome was lighted by lamps placed between each column, and as the columns were not lighted they seemed as if suspended in the air.
The twelve columns of the peristyle and the staircase were illuminated; and the columns were united by garlands of colored lights, the statues on the peristyle and the steps also bearing lights.
Within the peristyle at either end, there was an interior range of six columns, of five feet and a half in diameter, standing before the end of the cell, and forming a vestibule to its door.
The Court of Honor was thronged with thousands and thousands; the great fountain rippled in a blaze of light; the dark peristyle glowed for a moment in the fantastic flame from the fireworks.
The new facade of the town hall is composed of two wings which are parallel at their extremities, and a peristyle between the two former, but which does not so far project.
The peristyle fronting the rue des Charrettes is in the form of a quarter of a circle and is composed of columns of the ionic order.
Beyond the colonnaded arcade in the corridors and the peristyle could be seen groups of slaves--men and women--squatting together with head meeting head in eager gossip, or clinging to one another in a state of abject cowardice.
Taurus Antinor emerged alone from the peristyle of Caius Nepos' house.
Near the middle of this peristyle is a noble effigy of a royal conqueror, with long flowing beard, attended by courtiers with hands clasped on their breasts.
The bass-reliefs of another peristyle represent a combat between the king of apes and the king of angels, and if not the death, at least the defeat, of the former.
Behind is a peristyle with twelve columns, in the garden of which shrubs are said to have been discovered in a carbonized state.
Its peristyle is composed of forty-two columns, fifteen on each side and eight on each end.
Through the tablinum the pillars of the peristyle and the fountain painted on the garden wall are seen.
In 1759 an earthquake threw down three columns of the great temple and nine of the peristyle of the Temple of the Sun.
From the atrium the peristyle is entered by a large door.
The rooms at the sides of the peristyle offer nothing remarkable, but the three chambers opposite to the tablinum are of considerable size, and contain some good pictures.
At the eastern end of the peristyle there was a pretty fountain, with a jet d'eau.
These stones mark the extent of a platform of unknown antiquity, but far older than the peristyle temple, and it is from this that the temple took its early date and name.
On entering the peristyle a door on the right leads down some steps into a garden, on one side of which is a small altar before a wall, on which is a painting of shrubs.
In the peristyle is a semicircular fountain, on the margin of which were disposed several animals in bronze, representing a hunting scene.
In the peristyle was a large earthenware jar, which had been broken across the middle and the pieces then sewed carefully and laboriously together with wire.
Lude and Fournier and all the more important personages of the town, had sought refuge from the storm under the peristyle of the church of Ste.
Meanwhile, the tumult which had begun in the peristyle of the church extended throughout the square.
