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In classical architecture, a colonnade is a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often free-standing, or part of a building.<ref>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, 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 in Rome or the stoae 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>{{#if: |
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HistoryEdit
Colonnades (formerly as colonade) have been built since ancient times and interpretations of the classical model have continued through to modern times, and Neoclassical styles remained popular for centuries.<ref name="Doremus">Template:Cite book</ref> At the British Museum, for example, porticos are continued along the front as a colonnade. The porch of columns that surrounds the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., (in style a peripteral classical temple) can be termed a colonnade.<ref>Student Resource Glossary</ref> As well as the traditional use in buildings and monuments, colonnades are used in sports stadiums such as the Harvard Stadium in Boston, where the entire horseshoe-shaped stadium is topped by a colonnade. The longest colonnade in the United States, with 36 Corinthian columns, is the New York State Education Building in Albany, New York.<ref>Template:Usurped. Emporis. Retrieved on 2009-5-23.</ref>
Notable colonnadesEdit
Ancient worldEdit
- Luxor Temple R07.jpg
The colonnade of Amenhotep III at the Luxor temple
- Reconstruction of Stoa of Attalos (3357410911).jpg
The Stoa of Attalos in the reconstructed Ancient Agora of Athens
- Palmyra, Syria - 2.jpg
- Baalbek-Jupiter.jpg
Baalbeck, Lebanon
- Colonnade in Ephesus.jpg
- Arches, and a Plan of a Church at Thessalonica - Pococke Richard - 1745 (cropped).jpg
Las Incantadas colonnade, demolished in 1864 by Emmanuel Miller
- Station of Venezia Santa Lucia (7803866220).jpg
Modern colonnade at the Santa Lucia rail station, Venice
- Piliers de tutelle (Bordeaux 1669) (cropped).JPG
Piliers de Tutelle, Gallo-Roman portico demolished in 1677, France
Renaissance and Baroque periodsEdit
- Colonnade in Palacio de Carlos V.JPG
Palace of Charles V, Granada (1527)
- St Peter's Square, Vatican City - April 2007.jpg
Bernini's colonnade St. Peter's Square, Vatican City (1660s)
- St. Peter's Square, 1992.jpg
Detail of St. Peter's Square colonnade
- Louvre Kolonnaden.JPG
Colonnade of the Louvre, Paris (1670)
NeoclassicalEdit
- P1030420 Paris VIII église de la Madeleine colonnes façade occidentale rwk.JPG
The church of La Madeleine, Paris (consecrated 1842)
- GPOSydneyInterior2007.jpg
Vaulted colonnade in the General Post Office, Sydney (1890s)
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University.jpg
Main entrance to the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge (19th century)
- Brussels 3 157.jpg
Colonnade of the Arcade du Cinquantenaire, Brussels (1905)
- NYSED.jpg
New York State Education Building, Albany, New York (1912)
Modern interpretationsEdit
- Palacio da Alvorada Exterior.jpg
Palácio da Alvorada, by Oscar Niemeyer, in Brasília, Brazil (1958)
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Lebus Court, Bridges Hall of Music, Pomona College, by Myron Hunt in Claremont, California, United States (1915)
- Scripps College for Women-10.jpg
Balch Hall, Scripps College by Sumner Hunt and Gordon Kaufmann in Claremont, California, United States (1929)
- Colonnade, Mission and First (2024)-L1005696.jpg
Colonnade on the corner of Mission and First in downtown San Francisco
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