How To Use Peristyle In A Sentence
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In the corridor surrounding the peristyle were the names and portraits of all the pharaohs from Menes the first ruler of Egypt to Ramses XII In the hypostyle, or hall for nobles, the geography and statistics of Egypt were presented pictorially, also the subject nations.
The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
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This was most evident in the neglected peristyle or temple that was once revered as sacred space where community gathered.
Gina Athena Ulysse: Haiti's Vodou: A World Of Wonder And Surrender
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I'm sure there are hermits living in the hills of Haiti who have served the Lwa all their life and are mighty in Legba's magick, who have never set foot in a peristyle.
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She often spent her days in the peristyle, reading or playing the harp.
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This form, upon which our modern atria are based, was enclosed on all sides by buildings with roofs sloping to a columned peristyle or walkway around a courtyard.
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The characteristic Pompeian house with its peristyle garden, planted with trees and shrubs, frequently had an outdoor dining area, shaded by a canopy of vines.
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In it, he criticized the unity of place and time imposed by the classical theatre, which confined all the action to a banal peristyle and expelled all drama to the wings.
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One should perceive a bit further in the distance the colonnade forming the peristyle of the temple of Berecynthia.
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Over beers in the city's banlieues, the young street dancers explained that the smooth marble flooring of the peristyle surrounding the opera house was perfect for breakdancing.
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Portraits of famous Greek and Roman poets, orators, and statesmen filled libraries and peristyles.
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In the peristyle was a large earthenware jar, which had been broken across the middle and the pieces then sewed carefully and laboriously together with wire.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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This peristyle has colonnades on three sides, and on the side facing the south it has two antae, a considerable distance apart, carrying an architrave, with a recess for a distance one third less than the space between the antae.
The Ten Books on Architecture
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The peristyle is bordered by a double gallery with 60 granite and cipolin columns.
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The sequence of these spaces in the palace suggests the atrium and peristyle of Roman houses, basic features of domestic architecture emphasized by the Roman writer Vitruvius.
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The sequence of these spaces in the palace suggests the atrium and peristyle of Roman houses, basic features of domestic architecture emphasized by the Roman writer Vitruvius.
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For days before, public drapers were to be seen clinging cross-legged to obelisk and peristyle; moving in spread-eagle fashion, hung in a jacket of sail-cloth attached to cables, across the fronts of buildings, looping garlands, besticking banners and spreading tapestries.
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
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The Egyptian temple is not an organic structure complete in itself; instead of unity there are the following distinct parts: dromos, enclosing wall, pylon, peristyle, hypostyle, and sekos.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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With luck, the place would have a working fountain, or at least rainwater in the peristyle garden.
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The body of it is adorned with twenty columns engaged in the wall, and the peristyle, which is open, with ten detached pillars that support the entablature.
Travels through France and Italy
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On the north side of the peristyle is a double portico containing the _exedrae_, or seats of the sophists, where each most cunning rhetorician delivered his opinions _ex cathedrâ_, and lay in wait for any passer whom he could insnare into an argument.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859
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On the north side of the peristyle is a double portico containing the _exedrae_, or seats of the sophists, where each most cunning rhetorician delivered his opinions _ex cathedrâ_, and lay in wait for any passer whom he could insnare into an argument.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859
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The original building comprised a courtyard of enormous size with a full peristyle of eight columns on a side.
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The columns and wall at the extreme end of the peristyle were a mass of ruins, through the gigantic rents of which loomed a grassy hillock, its sides partially covered with clumps of furze.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete
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If surrounding a building or court, it is called a peristyle; when projecting beyond the line of the building a portico.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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As usual in Al-Islam, it is a hypaethral building with a spacious central area, called Al-Sahn, Al-Hosh, Al-Haswah, or Al-Ramlah,7 surrounded by a peristyle with numerous rows of pillars like the colonnades of an Italian cloister.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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In the peristyle is a semicircular fountain, on the margin of which were disposed several animals in bronze, representing a hunting scene.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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The presence of gardens and especially of a peristyle make one think of a domus, or patrician residence.
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This form, upon which our modern atria are based, was enclosed on all sides by buildings with roofs sloping to a columned peristyle or walkway around a courtyard.
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One should perceive a bit further in the distance the colonnade forming the peristyle of the temple of Berecynthia.
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That close to the gate, called the House of the Triclinium, derives its name from a large triclinium in the centre of the peristyle, which is spacious and handsome, and bounded by the city walls.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life