- In architecture, a
pilaster is both a load-bearing
section of
thickened wall or
column integrated into a wall, and a
purely decorative element in classical...
- lesene, also
called a
pilaster strip, is an
architectural term for a narrow, low-relief
vertical pillar on a wall. It
resembles a
pilaster, but does not have...
-
Pilaster (foaled 1944 in Maryland) was an
American Thoroughbred racehorse who was
inducted into the Maryland-Bred Hall of Fame in 1967. He was bred and...
- been
removed over the
centuries – for example,
capitals from some of the
pilasters are in the
British Museum. Two
columns were
swallowed up in the medieval...
- also
usually used to
decorate friezes. Even when
neither columns nor
pilasters are expressed, on an
astylar wall it lies upon the
architrave ("main beam")...
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There are
three plague crosses in Brugherio, in the
province of
Monza and...
- (1475–1564), who
frequently used the
giant order in his architecture, a
large pilaster that
stretches from the
bottom to the top of a façade. He used this in...
- of "two
orders of
columns and
pilasters, the
first order being Corinthian" and "a
third or
attic story formed of
pilasters and two
columns on
either side...
- three-story
brick building, with a five-bay
front facade framed by
corner pilasters with
stone capitals. The
building has a
raised ba****t, with a stone...
- supports,
called an "anta capital" when it is structural, or
sometimes "
pilaster capital" if it is only
decorative as
often during the
Roman period. In...
