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A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in an
The portico of Croome Court in Croome D'Abitot (England)
Temple of Portunus in Rome, with its tetrastyle portico of four Ionic columns
The hexastyle Temple of Concord at Agrigentum (c. 430 BCE)
The western side of the octastyle Parthenon in Athens
Pantheon, Rome
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The Pantheon is an ancient temple in Rome, Italy, originally built under emperor Augustus and reconstructed under Hadrian; since AD 609, it is a Catholic church called the Basilica of St. Mary and the
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…canon. The best-known octastyle buildings surviving from antiquity are the Parthenon in Athens, built during the Age of Pericles (450–430 BCE), and the Pantheon in Rome (125 CE). The destroyed Temple of Divus Augustus in Rome, the centre of the Augustan cult, is shown on Roman coins of the 2nd century CE as…
Façade of the Pantheon
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The interior of the Pantheon
The inscription at the entrance of the Pantheon reads, in Latin: M⸱AGRIPPA⸱L⸱F⸱COS⸱TERTIVM⸱FECIT