Definition of Hexastyle. Meaning of Hexastyle. Synonyms of Hexastyle

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Definition of Hexastyle

Hexastyle
Hexastyle Hex"a*style, a. [Gr. ? with six columns; "e`x six + column: cf. F. hexastyle.] (Arch.) Having six columns in front; -- said of a portico or temple. -- n. A hexastyle portico or temple.

Meaning of Hexastyle from wikipedia

- best-preserved Roman hexastyle temple surviving from antiquity. Octastyle buildings had eight columns; they were considerably rarer than the hexastyle ones in the...
- like those of the Temple on the Ilissus in Athens.(Figure 4.) Peripteral hexastyle describes a temple with a single row of peripheral columns around the...
- stylobate. The number of the originally wooden pteron columns was 6x16 (hexastyle). Τhe wooden columns were later replaced with columns from limestone....
- The Temple of Augustus and Livia is a Roman peripteral sine postico hexastyle Corinthian temple built at the beginning of the 1st century, which was in...
- Coin issued under Nero: the reverse depicts the cult statue of Vesta, holding a patera and scepter, within her hexastyle temple....
- This is in part an especially western feature (in Italy) because the hexastyle scheme was adopted as in the temple of Poseidon at Taranto and the second...
- neoclassical building designed by the architect Henry Hakewill with a hexastyle portico with Ionic columns and a clock tower. On 19 October 1991 The Times...
- which had destro**** the original structure. The new building was a Doric hexastyle temple of 6 by 15 columns. This temple was destro**** in 373  BC by an...
- those of the Temple on the Ilissus in Athens. (figure 4.) Peripteral hexastyle describes a temple with a single row of peripheral columns around the...
- temple-form structure. It is five-bays wide and five-bays deep and features a hexastyle Ionic order portico. The building has a two-story rear ell. It was listed...