Peristyle

A peristyle (of the Greek περίστυλον peristulon ) is a gallery of columns making the turn of one building inside its enclosing wall. What distinguishes it from the colonnade.

Saw being born the house from “representation”, with the extension to the profane architecture of the Persian use séleucide of the peristyle.

The Greek built in particular peristyles around their Temple S. the Roman then copied this type of Architecture for their religious constructions and the official buildings.

The Italian architect of the 16th century Andrea Palladio was the first to use peristyles to mark the entry of dwellings. It was criticized to have contributed to install a confusion between crowned architecture and the civil architecture. This device was often taken again by its follower (see Palladianisme).

This structural component then was taken again by the neo-classic architects of the 19th century for official buildings: the Palais Brongniart in France for example comprises some.

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