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Giant order
Also called colossal order
An order of columns or pilasters rising through two or more storeys, used to unify a façade; also called the colossal order. Michelangelo’s Capitoline palaces established it.
See also: Pilaster
Rules that use the word
The giant order. To unify a façade of two or more storeys, run a single order of pilasters or columns through all of them, from the base to the main cornice.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters Columns in Company, Renaissance and Baroque, Enlightenment and Revival.
A feature of Mannerism, Beaux-Arts architecture.
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