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ENGAGED COLUMN

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 405 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COLUMN , in See also:architecture, a See also:form of column, sometimes defined as semi or three-See also:quarter detached according to its See also:projection; the See also:term implies that the column is partly attached to a See also:pier or See also:wall. It is rarely found in See also:Greek See also:work, and then only in exceptional cases, but it exists in profusion in See also:Roman architecture. In the temples it is attached to the See also:cella walls. repeating the columns of the See also: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 See also: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 See also:special See also:function to perform, either to support subsidiary See also:arches, or, raised to the vault, to carry its transverse or See also:diagonal ribs. The same constructional See also:object is followed in the earlier See also:Gothic styles, in which they become merged into the See also:mouldings. Being virtually always ready made, so far as their See also:design is concerned, they were much affected by the See also:Italian revivalists.

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