Compound Piers: One Pier is Many Thin Columns

A column rising from the ground to the vault. The shaft is not a single cylinder, but a cluster of slender, small cylinders bundled together, each corresponding to a rib of the vault above. The capital is a continuous ring of carving, or the slender columns simply extend directly into ribs without a capital. Vertical lines are dense and continuous. Avoid: depicting it as a classical single cylinder with a capital, making the shaft fluted instead of a round cluster, adding horizontal bands in the middle of the column to interrupt the verticality, making the column a square pilaster.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一根從地面升到拱頂的柱子。柱身不是單一圓柱,而是一叢細長的小圓柱束在一起,每一根對應上方拱頂的一條肋。柱頭是連續的環狀雕花,或乾脆讓細柱直接延伸成肋不做柱頭。垂直的線條密而連續。避免:畫成古典的單一圓柱加柱頭、讓柱身有凹槽而非圓束、在柱子中段加入水平的環帶切斷垂直感、把柱子做成方形壁柱。