pilaster

(noun)

A rectangular column that projects partially from the wall to which it is attached; it gives the appearance of a support, but is only for decoration.

Related Terms

  • façade
  • qibla
  • naret
  • inaret
  • cornice
  • parapet
  • facade
  • Mesopotamia
  • arcade
  • tempera
  • pilasters
  • private sphere
  • public sphere
  • load-bearing
  • stacking and piling
  • bas reliefs
  • alto relief
  • quattrocento
  • ziggurat
  • minaret
  • Renaissance Architecture
  • pediment
  • relief
  • entablature

(noun)

A rectangular column that projects partially from the wall to which it is attached, giving the appearance of a support but used only for decoration.

Related Terms

  • façade
  • qibla
  • naret
  • inaret
  • cornice
  • parapet
  • facade
  • Mesopotamia
  • arcade
  • tempera
  • pilasters
  • private sphere
  • public sphere
  • load-bearing
  • stacking and piling
  • bas reliefs
  • alto relief
  • quattrocento
  • ziggurat
  • minaret
  • Renaissance Architecture
  • pediment
  • relief
  • entablature

Examples of pilaster in the following topics:

  • Renaissance Architecture

    • For instance, church façades of this period are generally surmounted by a pediment and organized by a system of pilasters, arches, and entablatures.
    • Renaissance architects also incorporated columns and pilasters, using the Roman orders of columns (Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite) as models.
    • The orders can either be structural, supporting an arcade or architrave, or purely decorative, set against a wall in the form of pilasters.
    • During the Renaissance, architects aimed to use columns, pilasters, and entablatures as an integrated system.
    • One of the first buildings to use pilasters as an integrated system was the Old Sacristy (1421–1440) by Brunelleschi.
  • Renaissance Architecture in Florence

    • They also made considerable use of classical antique features such as orderly arrangements of columns, pilasters, lintels, semicircular arches, and hemispherical domes.
    • The Palazzo Rucellai, a palatial townhouse built 1446–51, typified the newly developing features of Renaissance architecture, including a classical ordering of columns over three levels and the use of pilasters and entablatures in proportional relationship to each other.
    • His contributions included a classically inspired frieze decorated with squares, four white-green pilasters, and a round window crowned by a pediment with the Dominican solar emblem and flanked on both sides by S-shaped scrolls.
  • Carolingian Architecture in the Early European Middle Ages

    • For instance, the gatehouse of the monastery at Lorsch, built around 800 CE in Germany, exemplifies classical inspiration for Carolingian architecture, built as a triple-arched hall dominating the gateway, with the arched facade interspersed with attached Roman-style classical columns and pilasters above .
  • Buddhist Rock-Cut Architecture

    • A great deal of decorative sculpture—intricately carved columns and reliefs, including cornices and pilaster—are found here.
    • A great deal of decorative sculpture—intricately carved columns and reliefs, including cornices and pilaster—are found in the Ajanta Caves.
  • Architecture of the Early Roman Empire

    • The top band is also pierced by a number of small windows, between which are engaged Composite pilasters.
    • However, despite this illusion the engaged columns and pilasters were merely decorative.
  • Art in the Second Millennium B.C.E.

    • Babylonian architecture featured pilasters and columns, as well as frescoes and enamelled tiles.
  • Architecture in the Greek High Classical Period

    • Inside, a stone bench supported 10 Corinthian style pilasters, all of them attached to the concave surface of the wall.
  • Architecture of Djenne

    • Built with imposing façades with pilaster-like buttresses, many have elaborate arrangements of pinnacles forming a parapet above the entrance door.
  • Mannerist Architecture

    • His Villa Farnesina of 1509 is a very regular monumental cube of two equal stories, with the bays articulated by orders of pilasters.
  • Michelangelo

    • This exterior is surrounded by a giant order of Corinthian pilasters all set at slightly different angles to each other, in keeping with the ever-changing angles of the wall's surface.
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