Baroque designs often featured sinuously carved columns of marble.
"With its columns of marble, a fountain in marble, the floors; all this weight is pushing on rest of the house," Mr. Stefani said.
Of all the monuments constructed of humanity and deity, none continue to define us better than The Coliseum -- what we were, are, and will be, crumbling like glorious columns of marble.
The Great Hall is located on the western side of Tiananmen Square and is an immense building with tall columns of gray marble set on red marble bases of floral design.
The tables are set with elegant silver cutlery and crockery, with Corinthian columns made of marble, glittering chandeliers, French tapestries and potted plants in the background.
To the left of it was the Astor Dining Room, fronting on Fifth Avenue, which measured 50 x 92 ft. Great care was taken with it to faithfully reproduce the original dining room of the mansion, three floors above where it had stood, with all of the original paneling, carpeting, drapery and fireplace mantel and Italian Renaissance pilasters and columns, carved of marble from northern Russia.
In every direction rows of pillars stretch as far as I can see, 850 of them, each different in height and tint and yet related to its neighbors: Roman fluted columns and spirals, some of them pieced together; Visigoth columns; columns of rose marble, beige, violet, pale blue or coffee-and-cream; marble clotted like raspberry yogurt or swirled like clouds, alongside onyx or granite or red jasper.
Between columns of amber marble, darkened by age and burnished by worshipers, the occupiers had laid grubby mattresses and brown blankets, tangled and rumpled.
The Lincoln Memorial includes 36 columns of Colorado marble, one for each state in the Union at the time of Lincoln's death in 1865; each column stands 44 feet (13.4 metres) high.
On the inner part of the triumphal arch between the two is a 6th-century mosaic, and along the walls are giant Corinthian columns of rare marble taken from a non-Christian building.
These include the Baroque cathedral of St. Aubain, with noteworthy paintings and metalwork; the Jesuit church of St. Loup, with its columns of red marble; the convent of the Sisters of Our Lady, containing 13th-century treasures of silver and gold craftsmanship; and the Meat Hall (1588), housing the archaeological museum.
