Illustrated Architecture Dictionary ...................... Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary

Column

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Architecture

A supporting pillar consisting of a base, a cylindrical shaft, and a
capital

Latin: "columna" - a post

Column vs. post: post lacks the essential qualities of a column: base, shaft and capital

Columns are found in virtually all styles of architecture.

In cemeteries, a broken column represents life cut off

Materials:

Shafts:

Styles of Classical columns:

Classical two-story columns are found in Beaux Arts Classical, Greek Revival, Neoclassical styles

Classical one-story columns are found in Italianate, Beaux Arts Classical, Greek Revival, Neoclassical Colonial Revival, Queen Anne, Italian Renaissance Revival styles

See also: Vitruvius Pollio on Doric, Ionic and Corinthian Orders  (The Greeks were first to declare that architecture was based on the proportions and form of the human body.)

See also: Banded column ....Caryatid ....... Clustered column ...........Colonnade........ Engaged column ........  Egyptian columns   ........ Hypostyle ...... Loggia ...... Peristyle..... ... Pilaster ....... Portico .......Twisted column


Furniture

An upright member which is taller than it is thick, and serves as a support for something resting on its top.


Examples from Buffalo:

Other examples:


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