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are greater, averaging 2 diameters, but then the relative proportion of height to diameter in the column has to be taken into account, as also the width of the peristyle. Thus in the temple of Apollo Branchidae, where the columns are slender and over 10 diameters in height, the intercolumniation is
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The sequence of expanding intercolumniations, showing Pycnostyle ( I = 1.5D), Systyle ( I = 2D), Eustyle ( I = 2.25D), Diastyle ( I = 3D), and Araeostyle ( I = +3.5D)
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Vitruvius's definitions seem to apply only to examples with which he was acquainted in Rome, or to Greek temples described by authors he had studied. In the earlier
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Two and a quarter diameters (and three diameters between middle columns front and rear); considered by Vitruvius to be the best proportion.
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temples the intercolumniation is sometimes less than one diameter, and it increases gradually as the style developed; thus in the
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notwithstanding its late date, and in the Temple of Apollo Smintheus in Asia Minor, in which the peristyle is
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follow the proportions of those of the Ionic Order.
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The Four Books of Architecture
Andrea Palladio

architecture
proportional
columns
colonnade
Classical
Renaissance
Baroque architecture
Roman
Vitruvius
De architectura
Araeostyle
architraves
Hellenistic architect
Hermogenes
bay
façade
architrave
Doric
Parthenon
Ionic Order
pseudodipteral
Corinthian Order
List of architecture topics
Architectural glossary
"Intercolumniation"
The Columbia Encyclopedia, sixth edition

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