The next architect to take up the vast scheme was Antonio da San Gallo, who, could he have obtained the necessary funds, would have added a long pronaos or corridor of approach, to be entered from a domed porch at the western end.
Thence we reach the pronaosor portico, after which we enter the cell, divided into the naos and adytum.
Fragment of the capital of one of the Doric columns of the pronaos or opisthodomos, including the lower part of the echinus, and the upper part of the flutings.
The temple consisted of a central cella with a pronaos and opisthodomos, and was surrounded by a Doric colonnade, having six columns at the ends and fifteen columns at the sides.
The pronaos and opisthodomos were each bounded by two Doric columns between antae, surmounted by metopes.
The architecture of this outer hall or pronaos is quite remarkable.
The courts and the pronaos compose a narrow and elongated rectangle, with which the parts corresponding to the sanctuary and its dependent chambers form a right angle (see Fig.
We can hardly tell, therefore, where to look for the true pronaos at Luxor.
It is when we arrive at the pronaos that we fail to recognize the disposition to which we have grown accustomed.
The principal entrance to the palace from the plain being blocked up, it is only to be approached now by a side doorway from the pronaos of the chapel.
The pronaos presents the portraits and names of Caius, Claudius, and Nero, as well as Tiberius, by whom it was constructed.
The pronaos rests upon sixteen granite columns, with marble Corinthian bases and capitals.
The roof of the pronaos was originally arched, but the vaulting has been replaced by strong beams, and on the outside the gilded bronze has been replaced by lead.
In the nave of the church on the left hand are remains of the cella of the temple, to the pronaos of which the five columns belonged.
While the morning star was still paling, the lad who after Hermon's landing had raced along the shore with the burning torch glided into the little pronaos of the Temple of Nemesis.
Above the antae of the pronaos is a sculptured frieze, the subject of which cannot now be determined; and the battle of the Centaurs and Lapithae is represented upon a similar frieze of the porticoes.
Much of the history of Theseus is expressed in relievo, on the pronaos of the front and west end, where all the tricks and art of wrestling seem well expressed.
They led their visitors through the pronaos and naos to the secos, to the holy of holies.
The pronaos gave admittance to the sanctuary, the holy of holies, an immeasurable empty space, without image, without altar, without anything.
The pronaosof Edfû, as seen from the top of the eastern pylon.
The pronaos is supported by two, three, or even four rows of columns, according to the size of the edifice.
Its pronaos and pediments were resplendent with marble, whilst the vestibule and peristyle were adorned with the richest friezes and the noblest statues.
They moved towards the marble steps, and, ascending past pronaos and vestibule, went within the gates of ivory and gold and stood near the altar, around which were gathered the High Priest and Priestess and their attendants.
The simplest variety of temple plan, so called by Vitruvius because the pronaos or portico is formed by the projection of the side walls, terminated by antae, between which stand columns.
Terminations similar to pilasters upon the ends of the lateral walls of the cella, in pronaos and epinaos.
The pronaos and epinaos had no side walls, the cella being amphiprostyle, enclosed by high grilles.
That variety of temple plan in which the projecting wall and pilasters of the temple in antis have been transformed to corner columns, thus altering the pronaos from a loggia to an open portico.
Still, the Etruscan or ancient Italian division of the building was retained, inasmuch as the columns were usually restricted to a pronaos of great depth, such as is shown by the ruins of four temples in the Forum Romanum.
These passages opened, from the end opposite the entrance, into an adjoining temple, the pronaos of which served as the tribune of the forensic court.
The gain was not effected without a difficulty arising in the frieze above the end of the side wall and the corner column, the outer ceiling-beam of the pronaos thus lying in its length upon the epistyle without the formation of a metope.
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