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Encyclopedia Britannica



ENGAGED COLUMN

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 405 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EMS-EUD
ENGAGED COLUMN , in architecture, a form of column, sometimes defined as semi or three-quarter detached according to its projection; the term implies that the column is partly attached to a pier or
wall
 . It is rarely found in Greek
work
 , and then only in exceptional cases, but it exists in profusion in Roman architecture. In the temples it is attached to the cella walls.
repeating the columns of the
peristyle
 , and in the theatres and amphitheatres, where they subdivided the arched openings: in all these cases engaged columns are utilized as a decorative feature, and as a
rule
  the same proportions are maintained as if they had been isolated columns. In Romanesque
work
  the classic proportions are no longer adhered to; the engaged column, attached to the piers, has always a
special
 
function
  to perform, either to support subsidiary arches, or, raised to the vault, to carry its transverse or
diagonal
  ribs. The same constructional object is followed in the earlier
Gothic
  styles, in which they become merged into the mouldings. Being virtually always ready made, so far as their
design
  is concerned, they were much affected by the Italian revivalists.


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