An architectural term: a pilaster strip, usually slender with a slight projection.
"The higher central section {of the façade} is almost entirely taken up by the doorway, framed with Corinthian lesenes, festoons, and another tympanum." – from a description of the church San Pietro di Castello in Venice in Valeria Bové, Masterpieces in the Churches of Venice (Venice: Marsilio, 1999), p. 92.
An architectural term: a pilaster strip, usually slender with a slight projection.
"The higher central section {of the façade} is almost entirely taken up by the doorway, framed with Corinthian lesenes, festoons, and another tympanum."
– from a description of the church San Pietro di Castello in Venice in Valeria Bové, Masterpieces in the Churches of Venice (Venice: Marsilio, 1999), p. 92.