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thumb|300px|right|Colonnade at the Belvedere on the Pfingstberg palace in Germany

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Has part
entablature
Image
Wikimedia Conference 2015 photo by Pine - 28.jpg
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Commons category
Colonnades
topic's main category
Category:Colonnades
different from
arcade
OpenStreetMap tag
covered=colonnade
name
列柱
language of work or name
Spanish
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Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Notable colonnades
  • Ancient world
  • Renaissance and Baroque periods
  • Neoclassical
  • Modern interpretations
  • See also
  • References

thumb|300px|right|Colonnade at the Belvedere on the Pfingstberg palace in Germany

In classical architecture, a colonnade is a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often free-standing, or part of a building. 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “colonnade” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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