In Greek and Roman architecture a peristyle is a columned porch or open colonnade in a building that surrounds a court that may contain an internal garden. Architecture was extinct in Greece from the end of the Mycenaean period (about 1200 BC to the 7th century BC when urpeppeeban life and prosperity recovered The Architecture of Ancient Rome adopted the external Greek architecture for their own purposes which were so different from Greek buildings as to create a new A column in Structural engineering is a vertical structural element that transmits through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural A porch is a structure attached to a building forming a covered entrance to a vestibule or doorway In Classical architecture, a colonnade denotes a long sequence of Columns joined by their Entablature, often free-standing as in the famous elliptically In Architecture, Construction, Engineering and real estate development the word building may refer to one of the following Any man-made A garden is a planned space usually outdoors set aside for the display cultivation and enjoyment of Plants and other forms of Nature. "Tetrastoon" (Greek: "four arcades") is another name for this feature. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly In the Christian ecclesiastical architecture that developed from Roman precedents, a basilica, such as Old St Peter's in Rome, would stand behind a peristyle forecourt that sheltered it from the street. The Latin word basilica (derived from Greek, Basiliké Stoà, Royal Stoa) was originally used to describe a Roman In time the cloister developed from the peristyle. A cloister (from Latin claustrum) is a part of Cathedral, Monastic and Abbey architecture
In rural settings a wealthy Roman could surround a villa with terraced gardens; within the city Romans created their gardens inside the domus. A villa was originally an Upper-class Country house, though since its origins in Roman times the idea and function of a villa has evolved considerably A domus was the form of house that wealthy and some Middle class families owned in Ancient Rome and could be found in almost all the major cities of the The peristylium was an open courtyard within the house; the columns or square pillars surrounding the garden supported a shady roofed portico whose inner walls were often embellished with elaborate wall paintings of landscapes and trompe-l'oeil architecture. A portico is a Porch that is leading to the entrance of a building or extended as a Colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway supported by Columns Trompe-l'œil, which can also be spelled without the hyphen in English ( French: "trick the eye" tʁɔ̃p lœj is an Art technique involving extremely Sometimes the lararium, a shrine for the Lares, the gods of the household, was located in this portico, or it might be found in the atrium. Lares (sing Lar, also called Genii loci or more archaically Lases) were ancient Roman deities protecting the house and The courtyard might contain flowers and shrubs, fountains, benches, sculptures and even fish ponds.
Though the Egyptians did not use the Greek term peristyle, historians have adopted it to describe similar structures in Egyptian palace architecture and in Levantine houses known as liwan houses. See also Names of the Levant The Levant (lə'vænt is a geographical term that denotes a large area in Western Asia, roughly bounded on the north by the Liwan (لوان is a word used since ancient times into the present to refer to a long narrow-fronted Hall or vaulted portal found in Levantine
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- Barbara McManus, "The Peristylium": a reconstruction of a peristyle
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