Editing Colonnade (section)

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[[File:Wikimedia_Conference_2015_photo_by_Pine_-_28.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Colonnade at the [[Belvedere on the Pfingstberg]] palace in Germany]]

In [[classical architecture]], a '''colonnade''' is a long sequence of [[column]]s joined by their [[entablature]], often free-standing, or part of a building.<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/126377/colonnade ''Colonnade'' from Encyclopædia Britannica]</ref> Paired or multiple pairs of columns are normally employed in a colonnade which can be straight or curved. The space enclosed may be covered or open. In [[St. Peter's Square]] in Rome, [[Gian Lorenzo Bernini#Architecture|Bernini's]] great colonnade encloses a vast open elliptical space.

When in front of a building, screening the door (Latin ''porta''), it is called a [[portico]]. When enclosing an open court, a [[peristyle]]. A portico may be more than one rank of columns deep, as at the [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]] in Rome or the [[stoa]]e of [[Ancient Greece]]. 

When the [[intercolumniation]] is alternately wide and narrow, a colonnade may be termed "araeosystyle" (Gr. αραιος, "widely spaced", and συστυλος, "with columns set close together"), as in the case of the western porch of [[St Paul's Cathedral]] and the [[east front of the Louvre]].<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Araeosystyle|volume=2|page=312}}</ref>