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- adjective architecture Falsely or imperfectly
dipteral , like atemple with the inner range ofcolumns surrounding thecella omitted, so that the space between the cella wall and the columns is very great, being equal to twointercolumns and one column.
Etymologies
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Examples
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First there is the temple in antis, or [Greek: naos en parastasin] as it is called in Greek; then the prostyle, amphiprostyle, peripteral, pseudodipteral, dipteral, and hypaethral.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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Ictinus and Carpion, on the Doric temple of Minerva which is on the acropolis of Athens; Theodorus the Phocian, on the Round Building which is at Delphi; Philo, on the proportions of temples, and on the naval arsenal which was [9] at the port of Peiraeus; Hermogenes, on the Ionic temple of Diana which is at Magnesia, a pseudodipteral, and on that of
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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The pseudodipteral is so constructed that in front and in the rear there are in each case eight columns, with fifteen on each side, including the corner columns.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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These rules for symmetry were established by Hermogenes, who was also the first to devise the principle of the pseudodipteral octastyle.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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These ideas are developed, as I have described, in the pseudodipteral arrangement of a temple.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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It was a vast pseudodipteral edifice containing two cellas in one structure, their statue-niches or apses meeting back to back in the centre.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
chained_bear commented on the word pseudodipteral
Having, as a temple or other building, a single peristyle or surrounding row of columns, placed at the same distance from the walls as the outer of the two rows in the dipteros.
February 2, 2007