intercolumniation
Sign in to savethumb|right|Illustration from ''I quattro libri dell'architettura|The Four Books of Architecture by [[Andrea Palladio, translation by Thomas Ware published in London, 1738]] thumb|The sequence of expanding intercolumniations, showing Pycnostyle ( I = 1.5D), Systyle ( I = 2D), Eustyle ( I = 2.25D), Diastyle ( I = 3D), and Araeostyle ( I = +3.5D) In architecture, intercolumniation is the proportional spacing between columns in a colonnade, often expressed as a multiple of the column diameter as measured at the bottom of the shaft. In Classical, Renaissance, and Baroque architecture, intercolumni
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- architectural element
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- influenced by
- Vitruvius
- facet of
- architectural order
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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