{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.solomonic-column","code":"thing-q388610","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q388610/","name":"Solomonic column","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.2.0-wave.3","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Physical world and living systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"PHY","domain":["PHY.BLT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A column with a twisted, spiralling shaft, named after the columns believed in the Middle Ages to have come from the Temple of Solomon and preserved at Old St Peter s in Rome, revived in the Baroque by Bernini s bronze baldachin over the papal altar in St Peter s Basilica and used widely in Baroque altarpieces, portals and furniture in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Latin America and Central Europe, where it is also called a barley-sugar or twisted column.","purpose":"Let an agent explain the Solomonic column and its origin, 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