Colonettes: Small, thin columns, often used for decoration or to support an arcade.
Column: Slender vertical support having either a cylindrical or polygonal shaft, and which always has a base and a capital.
Both niches and windows are framed by engaged colonettes. Internally there are remains of wooden cornices carved in late Hellenistic style which joined the end columns of the arcades to the wall.
The first and third floor windows have colonettes with heavy bands. On the lower floor, there is a three-part window with an architrave. The front entrance is on a corner. It is flanked by two columns and topped with a balustraded balcony.
Santa Maria della Pieve, Arezzo, has a screen front with varied tiers of colonettes.
[edit] Decoration
[edit] Architectural embellishment ...
Simple semicircular headed window
Coupled semicircular headed (three or more) lights with central colonette
Stepped semicircular headed lights with dividing colonettes, frequently with lavish ornamentation
Trefoil-headed window ...
 See also: Arches, Architecture, Tower, Brick, Cornice
  
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