A Roman column stands in Minster Yard in the English city of York. Originally built around the first century, by the soldiers of Legio IX Hispana, it...
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Of the columns listed above, the following are the Roman columns. Roman triumphal columns were either monolithic pillars or composed of column drums;...
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Jordan for the 1964–65 New York World's Fair.: 152 The column originates from Gerasa (ancient Jerash), a city in the Ancient Roman province of Syria. It is...
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imitate ancient Roman columns wherever possible; where new, the emphasis was on elegance and beauty, as illustrated by twisted columns. Often they were...
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Ionic order (redirect from Ionic column)
difference with the column capitals disappeared with Roman times when anta or pilaster capitals have designs very similar to those of the column capitals. The...
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Doric order (redirect from Doric column)
uncommon Roman and Renaissance Doric retained these, and often introduced thin layers of moulding or further ornament, as well as often using plain columns. More...
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Twitter and then locked her own account, Roman apologized. During this time, Roman's New York Times column was put on temporary leave, with the intention...
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Corinthian order (redirect from Corinthian column)
in almost all respects, other than the capitals of the columns, though this changed in Roman architecture. A Corinthian capital may be seen as an enriched...
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Rostrata C. Duilii ("Rostral Column of Gaius Duilius"), celebrating the naval Battle of Mylae (260 BC); formerly in the Roman Forum, some remnants of the...
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Raymond Roman Thierry Polański (né Liebling; born 18 August 1933) is a French and Polish film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and convicted sex...
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Classical order (redirect from Greek column)
Roman architecture where the arch was often dominant, the orders became increasingly decorative elements except in porticos and similar uses. Columns...
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produced historical works in relief, culminating in the great Roman triumphal columns with continuous narrative reliefs winding around them, of which...
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The Archbishop of New York is the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, who is responsible for looking after its spiritual and administrative...
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Place Vendôme (redirect from Vendôme Column)
Napoleon by Antoine-Denis Chaudet was placed on top of the column. Napoleon is depicted dressed in Roman attire, bare-headed, crowned with laurels, holding a...
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based on columns and lintels to one based on massive walls, punctuated by arches, and later domes, both of which greatly developed under the Romans. The classical...
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The Roman army made good use of the flying columns in the early imperial era. One such commander, the proconsul Germanicus Caesar used flying columns to...
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Pantheon, Rome (redirect from Roman Pantheon)
fit columns with shafts 50 Roman feet (14.8 metres) tall and capitals 10 Roman feet tall (3 metres), whereas the existing portico has shafts 40 Roman feet...
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Temple of Jupiter (Baalbek) (redirect from Temple of Jupiter (Roman Heliopolis))
foundation. It was the biggest temple dedicated to Jupiter in all the Roman Empire. The columns were 19.9 meters high with a diameter of nearly 2.5 meters: the...
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The Broken Column (La Columna Rota in Spanish) is an oil on masonite painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, painted in 1944 shortly after she had spinal...
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Composite order (redirect from Composite column)
Governor's Mansion, 1907 Roman Composite columns of the Library of Celsus, Ephesus, Turkey, unknown architect, c.110 AD Roman Composite capital of the...
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Eboracum (redirect from Roman York)
Remains of the Roman Basilica building, at the north side of the Principia are visible in the undercroft of York Minster. A column found during excavations...
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signs are tables composed of two columns where the left column is the day of the week in Roman numerals and the right column is a range of hours of operation...
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Pillars of Ashoka (redirect from Aśoka Column)
The pillars of Ashoka are a series of monolithic columns dispersed throughout the Indian subcontinent, erected—or at least inscribed with edicts—by the...
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Greek art had a profound influence on Roman art. Public art—including sculpture, monuments such as victory columns or triumphal arches, and the iconography...
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Constantine in Rome "The Reliefs of Trajan's Column by Conrad Cichorius. Plate number LXXII: Arrival of Roman troops (Scene XCVIII); The emperor sacrifices...
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608, the Column of Phocas, a Roman monumental column, was erected before the Rostra and dedicated or rededicated in honour of the Eastern Roman Emperor...
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The Column of Arcadius (Greek: Στήλη του Αρκαδίου, Turkish: Arkadyos Sütunu or Avrat Taşı) was a Roman triumphal column in the forum of Arcadius in Constantinople...
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decades of Roman Britain. Its presence led to the development of the small Roman urban settlement known as Aquae Sulis around the site. The Roman baths—designed...
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plans, generally with columns all round, and outside Italy there were many compromises with traditional local styles. The Roman form of temple developed...
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Temple of Bacchus (category Roman sites in Lebanon)
eagle, which was entirely covered by the keystone's supporting column. Some historic Roman coins depict the structure of this temple along with Temple of...
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