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It was to include a 600-ft pyramid, or a height of 183 meters, standing in the middle of a pantheon with a colonnade forming aperistyle.
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The nobility and all those who have great responsibilities or who serve the state, must have vestibules, salons, peristyles, grand rooms, libraries, and rooms ornamented with pictures.
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Theperistyle, the imperial apartments and the thermae were also decorated with ornamental and mythological mosaics.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There were also aperistyleand suites of rooms to the west and east of these three rooms.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The room to the north of theperistylefeatured delicate ivy and stylized flowering vines as decoration.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It has aperistyle25.33 wide x 67.82 metres long with six columns at the front ("hexastyle") and fifteen on the long sides.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Beyond the hypostyle hall were one or moreperistylecourts open to the sky.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There were other structures, one of which was the earliest example of a building with an openperistylecourt, surrounded by columned stoas.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Theperistyletemple is situated at the edge of the existing cliff.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The large analog clock and thermometer over the office windows at either end of theperistylewere installed in 1955.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Unlike peripteral temples, there is a greater space between the columns of theperistyleand the cella; dipteral temples have two peristyles.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Theperistyleserves to buttress both the inner dome and the brick cone which rises internally to support the lantern.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This image, it is assumed, was intended to blend in with the actual garden that would have grown within the unroofed portion of the "peristyle".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It had aperistyle(24 x 63.7 metres) of 6 x 17 columns (8.62 metres high).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The major fresco decorations enliven theperistyleand its living spaces ("oeci") and the "triclinium" or dining hall.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Excavatations have revealed a villa withperistyle, thermae, granary and water tower.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Pseudoperipteral buildings appear similar to "peripteral" buildings with free-standing columns surrounding the cella as a "peristyle".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Unusually, the cella is sited further back with respect to theperistyle.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Larger houses had a fully developedperistylecourtyard at the centre, with the rooms arranged around it.
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