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Cortile vs Peristyle - What's the difference?

cortile | peristyle |

As nouns the difference between cortile and peristyle

is that cortile is an internal courtyard, surrounded by walls but open to the sky while peristyle is colonnade surrounding a courtyard, temple, etc.

cortile

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (architecture) An internal courtyard, surrounded by walls but open to the sky
    • ----

    peristyle

    English

    (wikipedia peristyle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • colonnade surrounding a courtyard, temple, etc.
  • * 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006), page 143:
    • One cannot, for example, see the Temple of Æsculapius as one stands in the fine open courtyard as it was intended one should do; the interstices on that side of the peristyle have been blocked by Venetian Gothic buildings.
  • A courtyard; the space surrounded by a colonnade.
  • A porch surrounded by columns.