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The document discusses different ways that columns and shafts have been decorated throughout architectural history. It describes how fluting was a simple but elegant decoration used in antiquity. Byzantine, Romanesque, and Scandinavian styles often featured geometric patterns. Gothic styles typically left shafts smooth. The Renaissance began adding more ornate decorations like bands, festoons, and carvings. Later decadent styles constructed columns from stacked drums with alternating plain and decorated sec

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