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Chresmographion
Chamber between the pronaos and the cella in Greek temples where
oracles were delivered.

Cincture
Ring, list, or fillet at the top and bottom of a column, which divides
the shaft from the capital and base.

Cinque cento
Style which became prevalent in Italy in the century following 1500,
now usually called 16th-century work. It was the result of the revival of
classic architecture known as Renaissance, but the change had commenced

already a century earlier, in the works of Ghiberti and Donatello in sculp-
ture, and of Brunelleschi and Alberti in architecture.

Cippus
(plural: cippi) Low pedestal, either round or rectangular, set up by the
Romans for various purposes such as military or milestones, boundary
posts. The inscriptions on some in the British Museum show that they

were occasionally funeral memorials.
Circulation

Describes the flow of people throughout a building.
Cleithral
Term applied to a covered Greek temple, in contradistinction
to hypaethral, which designates one that is uncovered; the roof of a

cleithral temple completely covers it.
Coffer

A coffer, in architecture, is a sunken panel in the shape of a square,
rectangle, or octagon that serves as a decorative device, usually in a ceiling
or vault. Also called caissons, or lacunar.

Colarin
(also colarino, collarino, or hypotrachelium) The little frieze of the
capital of the Tuscan and Doric column placed between the astragal, and

the annulets. It was calledhypotrachelium by Vitruvius.
Column
A structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight

of the structure above to other structural elements below.
Compluvium
Latin term for the open space left in the roof of the atrium of a Roman

house (domus) for lighting it and the rooms round.

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