prostyle
(adjective)
Free standing columns across the front of a building.
(adjective)
Having pillars along the front side of a building.
Examples of prostyle in the following topics:
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The Temple of Athena Nike
- The four piers aligned to the four Ionic prostyle columns of the pronaos .
- Both the pronaos and opisthodomos are very small, nearly non-existent, and are defined by their four prostyle columns.
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Etruscan Temples
- Etruscan temples derive from Greek models but are distinguished by a high podium, deep porch, prostyle columns, and frontality.
- Two rows of prostyle columns stood on the front of the temple's portico.
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Temple Architecture in the Greek Archaic Period
- Columns, known as prostyle, often stood in front of the pronaos.
- It also had a set of prostyle columns in antis that completed the symmetrical appearance of the temple.
- Both the pronaos and opisthodomos have two prostyle (free-standing) columns in antis and exterior access, although both lead into the temple's naos.
- Explain the sculptural design choices on different areas of the temples, identifying the naos, pronaos, prostyle, antae, and opisthodomos, indicating the specific features that were characteristic of the Doric order
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The Acropolis
- In front of both the pronaos (porch) and opisthodomos is a single row of prostyle columns.
- The four piers aligned to the four Ionic prostyle columns of the pronaos.
- Both the pronaos and opisthodomos are very small, nearly non-existent, and are defined by their four prostyle columns.
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Aegina
- Both the pronaos and opisthodomos have two prostyle columns in antis and exterior access, although both lead into the temple's naos.
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The Parthenon
- In front of both the pronaos and opisthodomos is a single row of prostyle columns.