colossal order

colossal order
or giant order

Architectural order in which the columns extend beyond one interior story, often through several stories.

Though giant columns were used in antiquity, they were first applied to building facades in Renaissance Italy. Any of the orders might be treated in this manner. The colossal order was revived in 18th-century Europe.

Colossal order, court facade of Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England, by Sir John Vanbrugh, begun ...

A.F. Kersting

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also called  Giant Order,  
 architectural order extending beyond one interior story, often extending through several stories. Though giant columns were used in antiquity, they were first applied to building facades in Renaissance Italy. Any of the orders (the major types being Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite) could be treated in this manner. The colossal order was revived in 18th-century Europe, notably in England in the grandly theatrical classicism of Sir John Vanbrugh (Vanbrugh, Sir John) and Nicholas Hawksmoor. See also order.

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