Yet such ceremonial pomps as this are as dreams and the shapes of visions, when compared with the clearly defined splendours of a Greek procession through marble peristyles in open air beneath the sun and sky.
The caryatid form of pier is generally found, in temples, in the peristyles of the fore-courts or the hypostyles of the pronaos.
In these chapels there are neither internal peristyles nor hypostyles; there are none of those subsidiary chambers among which it is sometimes so easy to lose our way.
The courts differ from those at Thebes in having noperistyles or colonnades.
Both were surrounded byperistyles of eighteen Corinthian columns, and probably covered by domical roofs with gilded bronze tiles.
The Greek orders were adopted, altered, and applied to arcaded designs as well as to peristyles and other open colonnades.
B) A great open court surrounded byperistyles on two or three sides.
Palatine hill were various mansions, the courts and peristyles of which were richly decorated with marble.
The despairing priests wrung their hands on theperistyles of the temples.
Intercolumniations ofperistyles should be not less than three nor more than four times the thickness of the columns.
On the contrary, such peristyles are called the men's apartments, since in them the men can stay without interruption from the women.
It is not easy to connect the idea of vulgarity with that of the Greek athletes whose portraits in marble, no less resplendent than the immortal Apoxyomenos of the Vatican, adorned the peristyles of Altis.
The extent of the house is greater measured across the two peristyles (along the line C-D on the plan) than from front to rear.
In thy fountainedperistyles of Reason Glows the light and flame of desert noons; And in the cloister of thy pensive Fancy Wisdom burns the spikenard of her moons.
TO ABU'L-ALA In thy fountained peristyles of Reason Glows the light and flame of desert noons; And in the cloister of thy pensive Fancy Wisdom burns the spikenard of her moons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peristyles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
