Pycnostyle

From LoveToKnow 1911

PYCNOSTYLE (Gr. 7rvrcv6s, close, compact, and cTaos, column), the architectural term given by Vitruvius to the intercolumniation of_the columns of a temple, when this was equal to 12 diameters.


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