Columns Architecture [thread]

Sigismund's Column, originally erected in 1644, is located at Castle Square, Warsaw, Poland and is one of Warsaw's most famous landmarks as well as the first secular monument in the form of a column in modern history commemorate King Sigismund III Vasa.

Construction of the Sigismund's Column, detail of the 1646 engraving by Willem Hondius.

Reused Roman columns and capitals in the Great Mosque of Kairouan, also known as the Mosque of Uqba, situated in the UNESCO World Heritage town of Kairouan, Tunisia and is one of the most impressive and largest Islamic monuments in North Africa.

Illustration of papyriform capitals, in The Grammar of Ornament

Illustration of various types of capitals, drawn by the egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius

Very detailed llustrations of the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite orders

Minoan columns at the West Bastion of the Palace of Knossos

Romanesque columns from the 12th century

Gothic columns of a church from Neuwiller-lès-Saverne (France)

Slender Gothic columns at a portal of Marienkirche Gelnhausen (Gelnhausen, Germany)

The Great Hypostyle Hall from Karnak (Egypt)

Columns found at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi

Rococo detail of a column from St. Peter's Church (Mainz, Germany)

Ionic capital

Church of San Prospero (Reggio Emilia, Italy)

These are composed of stacked segments and finished in the Corinthian style, at the Temple of Bel (Syria)

Engaged columns embedded in the side walls of the cella of the Maison Carrée in Nîmes (France)

National Capitol Columns located at United States National Arboretum in Wash., D.C. The columns originally supported the old East Portico of the United States Capitol (1828) They were removed during expansion of the Capitol in 1958 & placed in the National Arboretum during 1980s.

Roman Corinthian Capital and Base. (Restoration.) From drawing by Emanuel Brune.

Spiral fluted columns in the Great Colonnade at Apamea in Syria

Fluted columns and pilasters inside The Panthéon, Paris, France.

Persian columns at Persepolis, Iran