Column facts for kids
A column in architecture is a vertical element that transmits the weight of the structure above to the structure below. Columns can be either a single piece or several pieces put together. Columns are frequently used to support beams or arches on which the upper parts of walls or ceilings rest.
History
Stone columns were already used in the architecture of ancient Egypt as early as 2600 BC.
Images for kids
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National Capitol Columns at the United States National Arboretum in Washington, D.C.
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Column of the Gordon Monument in Waterloo.
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Dragon pillar from the Yingzao Fashi, Song dynasty
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Plan, front view and side view of a typical Persepolis column, of Persia (Iran)
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Illustration of various types of capitals, drawn by the egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius
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Columns with Hathoric capitals
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Papyriform columns of the Luxor Temple
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Minoan columns at the West Bastion of the Palace of Knossos
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Illustration of the Doric order
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Illustration of the Ionic order
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Evolution of the Corinthian order
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Praying Woman between two ionic columns, 2nd century, marble, in the Louvre
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Byzantine columns from Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo (Ravenna, Italy)
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The capital of a Byzantine column from Hagia Sophia (Istanbul, Turkey)
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Slender Gothic columns at a portal of Marienkirche GelnhausenGelnhausen, Germany)
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Column use is common in Ottoman architecture, an example in Topkapı Palace (Istanbul, Turkey)
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The Great Hypostyle Hall from Karnak (Egypt)
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At right, two of the Solomonic columns brought to Rome by Constantine, in their present-day location on a pier in St. Peter's Basilica (Rome). In the foreground at left is part of Bernini's Baldachin, inspired by the original columns.
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Tuscan columns can be seen at the University of Virginia
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Church of San Prospero (Reggio Emilia, Italy)
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Construction of Sigismund's Column in Warsaw, detail of the 1646 engraving.
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These are composed of stacked segments and finished in the Corinthian style, at the Temple of Bel (Syria)
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The pillars of Bankstown Reservoir (Sydney, Australia)
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Engaged columns embedded in the side walls of the cella of the Maison Carrée in Nîmes (France)
See also
In Spanish: Columna (arquitectura) para niños