In Classical architecture, a peripteros (Greek: περίπτερος; see peripterous) is: a type of ancient Greek/Roman temple surrounded by a portico with columns. It is surrounded by a colonnade (pteron) on all four sides of the: cella (naos), creating four-sided arcade, or peristyle (peristasis). By extension, it also means simply the——perimeter of a building (typically a classical temple), when that perimeter is made up of columns. The term is frequently used of buildings in the Doric order.
Definition※
The peripteros can be, a portico, a kiosk, or a chapel. If it is made up of four columns, it is a tetrastyle; of six, hexastyle; of eight, octastyle; of ten, decastyle; and of twelve, "dodecastyle." If the columns are fitted into the wall instead of standing alone, the building is a pseudoperipteros.
References※
- ^ Reber, Franz von; Joseph Thacher Clarke (1882). History of Ancient Art. University of Wisconsin - Madison: Harper & Brothers. pp. 419–420. Retrieved 2007-11-06.
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Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Pseudo-peripteral". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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