10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIASTYLE»
Discover the use of
diastyle in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
diastyle and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Greek and Roman Architecture
The heads of this classification were pycnostyle, in which the intercolumnar5
spaces are one and a half times the lower diameter, systyle, in which the figure is
two, and diastyle, in which it is three, anything wider being called araeostyle.
2
Finis Pyramidis: Or, Disquisitions Concerning the Antiquity ...
This species may be considered a reform of the Diastyle. " When columns, says
Vitruvius, are disposed in '.' the areostyle species, they are to be 8 diameters high
: «' in diastyle, 83 : in systyle, 93 ; in Pycnostyle, 10 di- " ameters : and in eustyle ...
3
Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, ...
But co lumns that are entirely detached, and perform alone not possible to make
the intervals so narrow as eustyle, or even as diastyle : wherefore the moderns,
authorised by some few examples of the ancients, where grouped columns are ...
Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig, 1797
4
Encyclopædia: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ...
... common to all pedestals. See Plate XLIII. the intercolumniations of the peristyle
, or gallery, itis Principles. *_.__..V-_-_J not possible to make the intervals so
narrow as eustyle, or even as diastyle : wherefore the moderns, authori62 CHAP.
VI.
5
An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, ...
896., of Ionic intercolumniations, A is the eustyle arrangement ; B, that of the
diastyle ; C, that of the arajostyle ; and D, that of coupled columns. 2608. Fig. 897.
is a similar application of the intercolumniations to the Corinthian order, wherein
...
6
A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture
For as the architraves were composed of single stones or blocks of marble,
extending from the axis of one column to that of another, it would have been
difficult to find blocks of a sufficient length for diastyle intervals, in large buildings.
7
The Gentleman's Magazine
The dilriglvphon, indeed, requires just two and three quarters for the intercolumn,
when the freeze is (as it ought to be) 45 minutes high, and yet this is called
diastyle; and when there are three triglyphs over each intercolumn, exactly four is
...
8
Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and ...
For, as the architraves were composed of single stones, extending from the
middle' of one column to the middle of another,' it would have been difficult,
especially in large buildiogsi to find blocks of a sufficient length for diastyle
intervals; With ...
Encyclopaedia Britannica, William Smellie, 1773
They were called Pycnostyle*, when the columns were placed in the closest
order practised, that is, when one and a half diameters apart ; Systyle, when two
diameters apart; Eustyle, when two and a quarter diameters apart; Diastyle, when
...
10
Pompeii: Its History, Buildings, and Antiquities. An Account ...
They were called Pycnostyle * when the columns were placed in the closest
order practised, that is, when one and a half diameters apart ; Systyle, when two
diameters apart ; Eustyle, when two and a quarter diameters apart ; Diastyle,
when ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIASTYLE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
diastyle is used in the context of the following news items.
New Czech-Slovak clinic offers free medical treatment in Nepal
The International Human Diastyle Free Clinic was opened by Czechs and Slovaks who visited the country as tourists and wanted to help. «Radio Prague, Feb 07»
