... Renaissance Architecture. The Temple of Vesta at Tivoli. [1] ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. ARCHITECTURE may be described as building at its best, and when we talk of the architecture ... columns, were spanned by beams of wood or lintels of stone (Fig. 1). Hence this architecture is called architecture of the beam, or, in more formal language, trabeated architecture. This mode ... porch or entrance. Pseudo-peripteral, resembling, but not really being peristylar. Pylon, or Pro-Pylon, the portal or front of an Egyptian temple. Quadriga, a four-horse chariot. Romanesque,...