exedrae
A portico or open room with seats in ancient Greece. Renaissance architect, Brunelleschi added this to cathedral architecture.
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[4] That is, it stretched the length of the eastern semidome, including the apse but excluding the exedrae (half-dome recesses in a wall). Twelve silver-covered marble columns of approximately 4.
A Roman hall of justice, typically with a high central space lit by a clerestory and lower aisles all around it, and with apses or exedrae for the seats of the judges ...
 See also: Exedra, Architecture, Church, Greek, Classical
  
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