engaged column

(noun)

A column embedded in a wall and partly projecting from the surface of the wall, sometimes defined as semi or three-quarter detached.

Related Terms

  • insula
  • caryatid
  • decumanus
  • decursio
  • mithraea
  • cardo
  • Dacia
  • apotheosis
  • triumphal arch
  • mausoleum
  • frieze

Examples of engaged column in the following topics:

  • Carolingian Architecture in the Early European Middle Ages

    • For instance, the gatehouse of Lorsch Abbey, built around 800 CE in Germany, exemplifies classical inspiration for Carolingian architecture, built as a triple-arched hall dominating the gateway, with the arcaded façade interspersed with engaged Corinthian columns and pilasters above.
    • In addition to the engaged columns and arcades, the apse-like structures on either side of the gatehouse recall the ancient Roman basilicas, which were the sites of important government events.
    • The bronze decoration is of extraordinarily high quality, especially the doors with lions heads and the interior railings, with their Corinthian order columns and acanthus scrolls.
    • On the upper stories of the center and towers of the westwork, a range of modified classical columns divide and accent the windows, which also take the form of round arches.
    • Lorsch Abbey (800 CE) demonstrates the Roman-classical inspiration the Carolingians took for their architecture, with a triple arch hallway dominating the gateway and interspersed with engaged classical columns.
  • Architecture of the Early Roman Empire

    • On both levels, an engaged column stood between each pair of arches.
    • Tuscan columns adorned the ground level, while Roman Ionic columns adorned the second level.
    • Full-length sculptures of men, possibly senators or other significant historico-political figures, stood under each arch on the second level and lined the roof above each engaged Ionic column.
    • However, despite this illusion the engaged columns and pilasters were merely decorative.
    • The arch follows typical standard forms for a triumphal arch, with an honorific inscription in the attic, winged Victories in the spandrels, engaged columns, and more sculpture which is now lost.
  • Spanish Architecture in the Northern Renaissance

    • The double temple façade contains engaged, as opposed to free-standing, columns in the Doric and Ionic orders.
  • Victory Columns under the Nervan-Antonines

    • Standing between the libraries of the Forum of Trajan is a 128 foot tall victory column, known as the Column of Trajan.
    • A victory column was also erected for Marcus Aurelius (r. 161-180 CE).
    • This column is modeled on Trajan's column and was originally erected on the Campus Martius between the Temple of Divine Hadrian and the Temple of Divine Marcus Aurelius.
    • Despite the similar military scenes, the artistic style of the Column of Marcus Aurelius differs greatly from the Column of Trajan.
    • Detail of five registers or bands from the Column of Trajan.
  • Temple Architecture in the Greek Archaic Period

    • Such aligned columns were referred to as columns in antis.
    • Doric columns are also noted for the presence of entasis, or bulges in the middle of the column shaft.
    • It is peripteral, with nine columns across its short ends and 18 columns along each side.
    • In this example, the temple was fronted by six columns, with 14 columns along its length.
    • Its colonnade has six columns across its width and twelve columns down its length.
  • The Antonines

    • A victory column was also erected for Marcus Aurelius .
    • A relief frieze encircles the column and depicts his military campaigns at the end of his life in Germania.
    • Despite the similar military scenes, the artistic style of the Column of Marcus Aurelius differs greatly from the Column of Trajan.
    • The figures in this column are stockier and their proportions are distorted.
    • Scene of Antoninus Pius and his wife Faustina on the pedestal of the Column of Antoninus Pius.
  • The Empire Style

    • The Vendôme Column, located in the Place de la Vendôme in Paris, was started in 1806 at Napoleon's direction and completed in 1810.
    • It was modeled after Trajan's Column, to celebrate the victory of Austerlitz.
    • However, while Trajan's Column was sculpted from marble, the veneer the Vendôme Column consists of of 425 spiraling bas-relief bronze plates was made from cannons taken from the combined armies of Europe, according to his propaganda.
    • A statue of Napoleon, bare-headed, crowned with laurels and holding a sword in his right hand and a globe surmounted with a statue of Victory in his left hand, was placed atop the column.
    • While Bergeret designed the column, its execution was carried out by Jean-Joseph Foucou, Louis-Simon Boizot, François Joseph Bosio, Lorenzo Bartolini, Claude Ramey, François Rude, Corbet, Clodion and Henri-Joseph Ruxthiel.
  • Architecture in the Hellenistic Period

    • Examples include slender and unfluted Doric columns and four-fronted capitals on Ionic columns, the latter of which helped to solve design problems concerning symmetry on temple porticos.
    • On second level Ionic columns lined the exterior, and columns with a simple, stylized capital lined the interior.
    • The order's columns are slender and fluted and sit atop a base.
    • The design was eventually changed to have three rows of eight columns across the front and back of the temple and a double row of twenty on the flanks, for a total of 104 columns.
    • The columns stand 55.5 feet high and 6.5 feet in diameter.
  • Characteristics of Romanesque Architecture

    • Romanesque design is also characterized by the presence of arches and openings, arcades, columns, and vaults and roofs.
    • Columns were often used in Romanesque architecture, but they varied in building material and decorative style.
    • These huge untapered columns were sometimes ornamented with incised decorations.
    • The most simple form this takes is to have a column between each adjoining pier.
    • Sometimes the columns are in multiples of two or three.
  • Architecture under Constantine

    • However, by 312, Constantine and Maxentius were engaged in open hostilities, culminating in the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, in which Constantine emerged victorious.
    • The multiple sackings of Rome resulted in the raiding of the marble, façades, décor, and columns from monuments and buildings throughout the city.
    • Then it passed through the oval Forum of Constantine where there was a second Senate-house and a high column with a statue of Constantine in the guise of Helios, crowned with a halo of seven rays and looking toward the rising sun.
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