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• PILASTER (Fr. pilastre, med. Lat. pilastrum, from pila, a pillar)

PILASTER (Fr. pilastre, med. See also:

• LAT

Lat. pilastrum, from pila, a See also:

• PILLAR (0. Fr. piler, Mod. pilier, Late Lat. pilare, from pila, column)

pillar)  , in See also:

• ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, an engaged See also:

• PIER (older forms per or Pere, from Med. Lat. pera; the word for piers out of water. For river piers, where a firm, watertight is of obscure origin, and the connexion with Fr. Pierre, Lat. stratum is found at a moderate depth below the river-bed, the pctr

pier projecting slightly from the See also:

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall, and employed to See also:

• DIVIDE

divide up and decorate a wall See also:

• SURFACE

surface or to serve as See also:

• RESPOND

respond to a See also:

• COLUMN (Lat. columna)

column . One of the earliest examples (c . 100 B.c.) exists in the See also:

• PROPYLAEA (Ilp6sruXov, 1pol- mala)

propylaea at See also:

• PRIENE (mod. Samsun kale)

Priene in See also:

• ASIA

Asia See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

Minor, where it tapers towards the See also:

• TOP (cf. Dan. top, Ger. Topf, also meaning pot)

top . Pilasters have bases and capitals and are frequently fluted like columns . The See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans would seem to have preferred semi-detached columns, but for their amphitheatres sometimes pilasters are employed, as in the upper See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story of the Colosseum . In the revival of Classic architecture, and especially in See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, architects seem to have considered that no See also:

• BUILDING

building was See also:

• COMPLETE

complete without a network of pilasters on every See also:

• STOREY (equivalents are Fr. etage, Ital. piano, Ger. Stock)

storey, and See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France and See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England followed their example; and not only externally but inside the See also:

• GREAT

great cathedrals and churches the See also:

• PILASTER (Fr. pilastre, med. Lat. pilastrum, from pila, a pillar)

pilaster is adopted as the simplest and best way of dividing the bays .