A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 75
unding an internalcourt of a building, as inthe PeristyliuLU of a Greekor Roman house ; or form-ing a covered ambulatoryor open screen around anylarge open space, partly orwholly enclosing it. Also,by extension, the space soenclosed. (See ColumnarArchitectuiv.) PERISTYLIUM;PERISTYLUM. Sameas… … \ -.Zl ■ ■■ I u* PERPEXniniLAR .\RrHITRCTURE: EARLIEST Tr.\ceuy ; Edinuton, Wiltshire, a.d.Uiiil. buildings, andthree sides. Rhodiaii Peri-sty Hum. Accordingto Vitruvius, one inwhich one side ishigher than theothers. This formis supposed by someto imply a secondstory colonnade onthat side, the…
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