Inclassical architecture, acolonnade is a long sequence ofcolumns joined by theirentablature, often free-standing, or part of a building.[1] 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. InSt. Peter's Square in Rome,Bernini's great colonnade encloses a vast open elliptical space.
When in front of a building, screening the door (Latinporta), it is called aportico. When enclosing an open court, aperistyle. A portico may be more than one rank of columns deep, as at thePantheon in Rome or thestoae ofAncient Greece.
When theintercolumniation 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 ofSt Paul's Cathedral and theeast front of the Louvre.[2]
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.[3] At theBritish Museum, for example, porticos are continued along the front as a colonnade. The porch of columns that surrounds theLincoln Memorial inWashington, D.C., (in style aperipteral classical temple) can be termed a colonnade.[4] As well as the traditional use in buildings and monuments, colonnades are used in sports stadiums such as theHarvard Stadium inBoston, where the entire horseshoe-shaped stadium is topped by a colonnade. The longest colonnade in the United States, with 36Corinthian columns, is theNew York State Education Building in Albany, New York.[5]
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