Definition of Hexastyle. Meaning of Hexastyle. Synonyms of Hexastyle

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Definition of Hexastyle

Hexastyle
Hexastyle Hex"a*style, a. [Gr. ? with six columns; "e`x six + column: cf. F. hexastyle.] (Arch.) Having six columns in front; -- said of a portico or temple. -- n. A hexastyle portico or temple.

Meaning of Hexastyle from wikipedia

- best-preserved Roman hexastyle temple surviving from antiquity. Octastyle buildings had eight columns; they were considerably rarer than the hexastyle ones in the...
- The Maison Carrée at Nîmes with its cella offset behind the hexastyle portico...
- The Gr**** hexastyle portico of the General Post Office, completed in 1818. The royal coat of arms, similar to those at King's Inns and the Irish Houses...
- front, and distinguishes the layout from ancient Gr**** temples. It is a hexastyle design with six Corinthian columns under the pediment at either end, and...
- This is in part an especially western feature (in Italy) because the hexastyle sceme was adopted as in the temple of Poseidon at Taranto and the second...
- like those of the Temple on the Ilissus in Athens.(Figure 4.) Peripteral hexastyle describes a temple with a single row of peripheral columns around the...
- Chiswick House (London), an example of English landscape garden The Gr**** hexastyle portico of the General Post Office (Dublin) completed in 1818 Dublin's...
- The Temple of Augustus and Livia is a Roman peripteral sine postico hexastyle Corinthian temple built at the beginning of the 1st century, which was in...
- stylobate. The number of the originally wooden pteron columns was 6x16 (hexastyle). Τhe wooden columns were later replaced with columns from limestone....
- Roma following the fire in 307 AD. Roma holding globe and sceptre seated within hexastyle temple with shield on the ground is depicted on the reverse....