About 210 results for ‘Pilaster’
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Pilaster
A pilaster is a slightly projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile. Rounded examples are more often called engaged columns. In discussing Leon Battista Alberti's use of pilasters, which Alberti reintroduced into wall-architecture, Rudolf Wittkower wrote, "The pilaster is the logical transformation of the column for the decoration of a wall. It may be defined as a flattened column which has lost its three-dimensional and tactile value. " A pilaster appears with a capital and entablature, also in "low-relief" or flattened against the wall. The pilaster is an in classical architecture used to give the appearance of a supporting column and to articulate an extent of wall, with only an ornamental function. In contrast, an engaged column or buttress can support the structure of a wall and roof above. Pilasters often appear on the sides of a door frame or window opening on the facade of a building, and are sometimes paired with columns or pillars set directly in front of them at some distance away from the wall, which support a roof structure above, such as a portico. These vertical elements can also be used to support a recessed archivolt around a doorway. The pilaster can be replaced by ornamental brackets supporting the entablature or a balcony over a doorway. When a pilaster appears at the corner intersection of two walls it is known as a canton. As with a column, a pilaster can have a plain or fluted surface to its profile and can be represented in the mode of any architectural style. During the Renaissance and Baroque architects a range of pilaster forms. In the giant order pilasters appear as two-storeys tall, linking floors in a single unit. The fashion of using this element from Ancient Greek and Roman architecture was adopted in the Italian Renaissance, gained wide popularity with Greek Revival architecture, and continues to be seen in some modern architecture.
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Stèle funéraire à personnages
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Gallo-Roman culture
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Blind arcade
- Capital (architecture)
- Column
- Man
- Overcoat
- Pilaster
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- Date:
- 2nd century
- 3rd century
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Stèle funéraire à personnages
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Gallo-Roman culture
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Beard
- Blind arcade
- Capital (architecture)
- Man
- Overcoat
- Pilaster
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- Date:
- 2nd century
- 3rd century
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Stèle d'un homme
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Belief
- Gallo-Roman culture
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Braid
- Impost (architecture)
- Man
- Pilaster
- Tunic
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- Date:
- 2nd century
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Stèle funéraire à personnages
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Belief
- Gallo-Roman culture
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Capital (architecture)
- Entablature
- Man
- Overcoat
- Pilaster
- Tunic
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- Date:
- 3rd century
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fragment de bordure ajourée
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- Field(s):
- Belief
- Ethnology
- Middle Ages
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- Portrayed subject:
- Capital (architecture)
- Column
- Pilaster
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- Date:
- 14th century
- 15th century
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- Designation:
- osculatoire | baiser de paix
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- Portrayed subject:
- Angel
- Christian cross
- Crown (headgear)
- Entombment of Christ
- Jesus
- Mary (mother of Jesus)
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- Date:
- 16th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
DEUX ETUDES POUR LA NICHE DU BUSTE DE HENLEY, AU VERSO CH...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Blois
- Capital (architecture)
- Pilaster
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
ENTABLEMENT A ANCY-LE FRANC, ?, ET FACADE DU CHATEAU DE S...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Ancy-le-Franc
- Château
- Entablature
- Facade
- Molding (decorative)
- Pilaster
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- Date:
- 19th century
- 20th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
PILASTRE ET ARCATURE DE L'EGLISE ST SAUVEUR A CAEN
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Date:
- 19th century
- 20th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
PILASTRE DE L'ESCALIER FRANCOIS IER AU CHATEAU DE CHAMBORD
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Chambord, Loir-et-Cher
- Pilaster
- Stairway
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
PILASTRE DE L'EGLISE ST SAUVEUR A CAEN ?, AU VERSO ASSOMP...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Assumption of Mary
- Caen
- Pilaster
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
FACADE A PILASTRES, AVEC PERSONNAGES
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Date:
- 19th century
- 20th century
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Cambréris, Guyenne, Viennois
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Barrel
- Beaker (drinkware)
- Bench (furniture)
- Crowd
- Drum
- Flag
- …
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- Date:
- 18th century
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Royal, Dauphin, Royal Vaisseau, La Couronne
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bucranium
- Cloud
- Crown (headgear)
- Dolphin
- Flag
- Fleur-de-lis
- …
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- Date:
- 18th century
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SAVOIE-CARIGNAN-AQUITAINE-ANJOU
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cloud
- Entablature
- Fleuron (architectural)
- Garland
- Landscape
- Leaf
- …
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- Date:
- 18th century
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JESUS CHEZ MARTHE ET MARIE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Book
- Capital (architecture)
- Jesus
- Martha
- Mary (mother of Jesus)
- Pilaster
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Léon Comerre
MORT DE TIMOPHANE
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- Artist(s):
- Guercino
SAINT FRANCOIS EN EXTASE ET SAINT BENOIT AVEC UN ANGE MUS...
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Angel
- Benedict of Nursia
- Ecstasy (emotion)
- Francis of Assisi
- Pilaster
- Violin
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- Date:
- 17th century
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LA VIERGE ET L'ENFANT ENTOURES DE SAINT JULIEN ET DE SAIN...
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- Portrayed subject:
- Blessing
- Book
- Madonna (art)
- Pilaster
- Prayer
- Reading (process)
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- Date:
- 15th century
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LA VIERGE ET L'ENFANT ENTOURES DE SAINT BENOIT ET SAINT Q...
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Angel
- Armour
- Benedict of Nursia
- Child Jesus
- Column
- Cope
- …
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- Date:
- 16th century
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SAINT SEBASTIEN
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Arrow
- Column
- Pilaster
- Terrace (building)
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- Date:
- 15th century
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