Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In classical columnar architecture, according to the Vitruvian system, noting a conventional intercolumniation, less than that usually employed. It is commonly reckoned at one diameter and a half.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anc. Arch.) See under
intercolumniation .
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- adjective architecture Having an
intercolumniation of 1.5 times thediameter of theshaft of acolumn . - noun architecture A
colonnade of this kind.
Etymologies
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The pycnostyle is a temple in an intercolumniation of which the thickness of a column and a half can be inserted: for example, the temple of the Divine Caesar, that of Venus in Caesar's forum, and others constructed like them.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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In the pycnostyle, the height should be divided into ten parts, and one of these used for the thickness of the column.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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The columns are then to be distributed over the stylobates in the manner above described: close together in the pycnostyle; in the systyle, diastyle, or eustyle, as they are described and arranged above.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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There are five classes of temples, designated as follows: pycnostyle, with the columns close together; systyle, with the intercolumniations a little wider; diastyle, more open still; araeostyle, farther apart than they ought to be; eustyle, with the intervals apportioned just right.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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