. Architecture, classic and early Christian . be used oneabove another, marking the difierent stories of a loftybuilding. The columns, or pilasters which took their place, beingreduced to the humble function of ornaments added to thewall of a building, it became very usual to combine themAvith arched openings, and to put an arch in the interspacebetween two columns, or, in other words, to add a columnto the pier between tAvo arches (Fig. 146). These archedopenings being often Avide, a good deal of disproportionbetAveen the height of the columns and their distanceapart Avas liable to occur; and
. Architecture, classic and early Christian . be used oneabove another, marking the difierent stories of a loftybuilding. The columns, or pilasters which took their place, beingreduced to the humble function of ornaments added to thewall of a building, it became very usual to combine themAvith arched openings, and to put an arch in the interspacebetween two columns, or, in other words, to add a columnto the pier between tAvo arches (Fig. 146). These archedopenings being often Avide, a good deal of disproportionbetAveen the height of the columns and their distanceapart Avas liable to occur; and, partly to correct this, thecolumn Avas often mounted upon a pedestal, to Avhicli thename of stylobate has been given. It Avas also sometimes customary to place above theorder, or the highest order Avhere more than one w^asemployed, Avhat Avas termed an attic—a Ioav story orna-mented with piers or pilasters. The exterior of theColosseum (Fig. 5), the triumphal arches of Constantino(Fig. 139) and Titus, and the fragments of the upper part. ilu. I4(i.—Paki us the Theatre op Marcellds, Home. Showi:)g the coiibisaiios o*Columns and Auched Opesings. ROMAN. 191 of the Forum of Nerva (Fig. 147) may be consulted asillustrations of the combination of an order and an archedopening, and of the use of pedestals and attics.
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