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Diocletian windows continued to be used occasionally in large public buildings in the various devolutions of
89:.) The variant name, thermal window, also comes from their association with the Thermae of Diocletian. 65:(or other openings), which are usually divided into three lights (window compartments) by two vertical 50: 269: 120: 124: 208: 178: 8: 317: 78: 21: 69:. The central compartment is often wider than the two side lights on either side of it. 108:
The Diocletian window was much used in the early 18th century by the English architect
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This type of window was revived and used in Italy in the 16th century, especially by
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A five-light variant of the thermal window is seen on the old
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Diocletian windows are named after the windows found in the
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in Rome with three-light “Diocletian windows” visible.
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Baths of Diocletian
public baths
thermae
Ancient Rome
classical revivalist architects
windows
mullions
Baths of Diocletian
Rome
Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri
Andrea Palladio
Venetian window
Richard Boyle
English Palladian style
Neoclassical architecture
Beaux Arts movement
A five-light variant of the thermal window is seen on the old Penn Station in New York City (ca. 1911).
Penn Station
Villa Foscari by Andrea Palladio
Villa Foscari
Andrea Palladio
Chiesa delle Zitelle, Venice
Chiesa delle Zitelle
Palais Thermal, Kernerstraße in Bad Wildbad
Bad Wildbad
Villa Pisani by Andrea Palladio
Villa Pisani
Andrea Palladio
Trifora

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