Editing Giant order (section)

==In Renaissance and Beaux-Arts architecture==
[[File:Sant Andrea straight.jpg|thumb|Facade of Sant'Andrea, Mantua]]
One of the earliest uses of this feature in the Renaissance was at the [[Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Mantua]], designed by [[Leon Battista Alberti]] and begun in 1472; this adapted the Roman [[triumphal arch]] to a church facade. From designs by [[Raphael]] for his own palazzo in [[Rome]] on an island block it seems that all facades were to have a giant order of pilasters rising at least two stories to the full height of the [[piano nobile]], "a grandiloquent feature unprecedented in private palace design". He appears to have made these in the two years before his death in 1520, which left the building unstarted.{{sfn|Jones|Penny|1983|pages=224-226}} It was further developed by [[Michelangelo]] at the Palaces on the [[Capitoline Hill]] in [[Rome]] (1564–1568), where he combined giant pilasters of [[Corinthian order]] with small [[Ionic order|Ionic]] columns that framed the windows of the upper story and flanked the [[loggia]] openings below.{{sfn|Summerson|1980|page=63}}

The giant order became a major feature of later 16th century [[Mannerism|Mannerist]] architecture, and [[Baroque|Baroque architecture]].{{sfn|Summerson|1980|page=63}} Its use by [[Andrea Palladio]] justified its use in the seventeenth century in the movement known as [[Palladian architecture#Neo-Palladianism|neo-Palladian]] architecture.

It continued to be used in [[Beaux-Arts architecture]] of 1880–1920 as, for example, in [[New York City]]'s [[James A. Farley Building]], which claims the largest giant order Corinthian colonnade in the world.<ref>{{Cite web|title=James A. Farley Post Office {{!}} The Official Guide to New York City|url=https://www.nycgo.com/attractions/james-a.-farley-post-office-midtown-west|website=NYCgo.com|language=en|access-date=2020-05-12}}</ref>