Colonnade

In classical architecture, a colonnade is a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, 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. 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

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  The colonnade of Amenhotep III at the

  Luxor temple
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  The Stoa of Attalos in the reconstructed Ancient Agora of Athens
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  The Great Colonnade at Palmyra, Syria
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  Baalbeck

  , Lebanon
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  Ephesus
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  Las Incantadas colonnade, demolished in 1864 by Emmanuel Miller
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  Modern colonnade at the Santa Lucia rail station, Venice
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  Piliers de Tutelle, Gallo-Roman portico demolished in 1677, France

Renaissance and Baroque periods

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  Palace of Charles V, Granada (1527)
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  Bernini's colonnade St. Peter's Square, Vatican City (1660s)
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  Detail of St. Peter's Square colonnade
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  Colonnade of the Louvre

  , Paris (1670)

Neoclassical

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  The church of La Madeleine, Paris (consecrated 1842)
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  Vaulted colonnade in the General Post Office, Sydney (1890s)
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  Main entrance to the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge (19th century)
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  Colonnade of the

  Arcade du Cinquantenaire, Brussels

  (1905)
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  New York State Education Building, Albany, New York (1912)

Modern interpretations

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  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)
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  Balch Hall, Scripps College by Sumner Hunt and Gordon Kaufmann in Claremont, California, United States (1929)

See also

• Arcade
• Cloister
• Engaged column

References

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