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

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 602 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PIG-POL
PILASTER (Fr. pilastre, med. Lat. pilastrum, from pila, a pillar) , in architecture, an engaged pier projecting slightly from the
wall
 , and employed to
divide
  up and decorate a
wall
  surface or to serve as
respond
  to a column. One of the earliest examples (c. 100 B.c.) exists in the propylaea at
Priene
  in
Asia
 
Minor
 , where it tapers towards the top. Pilasters have bases and capitals and are frequently fluted like columns. The Romans would seem to have preferred semi-detached columns, but for their amphitheatres sometimes pilasters are employed, as in the upper story of the Colosseum. In the revival of Classic architecture, and especially in Italy, architects seem to have considered that no building was complete without a network of pilasters on every
storey
 , and France and England followed their example; and not only externally but inside the
great
  cathedrals and churches the
pilaster
  is adopted as the simplest and best way of dividing the bays.


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