Statuary COLUMN, that which supports a statue. Such was that erected by Pope Paul V. on a pedestal before the church of Santa Maria at Rome, to support a statue of the Virgin, which is of gilt brass. This column was dug up in the temple of Peace; its shaft is a single block of white marble, forty-nine feet six inches in height, and five feet eight inches in diameter, of the Corinthian order.
The term statuary column may likewise be applied to Caryatides, Persians, Termini, and other human figures which perform the office of columns, and which Vitruvius calls telamones and atlantes.