peristyle

Examples of peristyle in the following topics:

• Diocletian's Palace

  • Diocletian's palace demonstrates the Roman use of vaults in the substructure and the use of columns, peristyles, and entablatures to create monumental spaces.
  • For example, the central court of the palace, known as the Peristyle, demonstrates the stylistic and monumental use of these architectural elements.
  • Furthermore, the central court was sunken and a flight of stairs enclosed the court and lead up to the decorative Peristyle and surrounding rooms.
  • A main feature of the Peristyle is the portico that marks the entrance to Diocletian's private apartments.
  • One is still on the Peristyle, the second sits headless in front of Jupiter's temple, and a third is in the city museum.

• Architecture at Pompeii

  • A peristyle -- a colonnaded courtyard -- was usually the main feature of the back of the house.
  • This domus has two atria, each with its own fauces, although with two peristyles of different sizes.
  • The main attributes of their house were the atrium and the large garden peristyle, surrounded by decorated triclinium and a garden complete with fountains, statues, and flowers.
  • The fauces led the guest into the atrium and the tablinum, which divided the public front of the house from the private back of the house, where a small peristyle and a frescoed triclinium were located.

• Architecture of the Early Christian Church

  • It was ringed with a colonnade or arcade, like the stoa or peristyle that was its ancestor, or like the cloister that was its descendant.

• The Agora

  • Plan of the Athenian Agora. 1 Peristyle Court 2 Mint 3 Enneacrounos 4 South stoa 5 Heliaea 6 Strategeion 7 Colonos Agoraios 8 Tholos 9 Agora stone 10 Monument of the Eponymous Heroes 11 Old Bouleuterion 12 New Bouleuterion 13 Temple of Hephaestus (Hephaestion) 14 Temple of Apollo Patroos 15 Stoa of Zeus 16 Altar of the Twelve Gods 17 Royal stoa 18 Temple of Aphrodite Urania 19 Stoa of Hermes 20 Stoa poikile

• Painting

  • A final image, found in the peristyle, depicts the Sacrifice of Iphigenia .

• Ancient Egyptian Monuments

  • Hypostyle halls (covered rooms filled with columns) led to peristyle courts (open courts), where the public could meet with priests.

• Dura-Europos

  • Domus ecclesiae emerged in third century Rome and are closely tied to domestic Roman architecture of this period, specifically to the peristyle house in which the rooms were arranged around a central courtyard.

• Delphi and Greek Treasuries

  • One peristyle of Doric columns (the order used in Archaic architecture) surrounded the perimeter of the stylobate, which rested atop two steps.

• Early Christian Art

  • Domi ecclesiae emerged in third-century Rome and are closely tied to domestic Roman architecture of this period, specifically to the peristyle house in which the rooms were arranged around a central courtyard.

• Painting in the Early Roman Empire

  • A final image, found in the peristyle, depicts the Sacrifice of Iphigenia.