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...
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The porticoes of Bologna are an important cultural and architectural heritage of Bologna, Italy and represent a symbol of the city together with the numerous...
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Look up portico or pórtico in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building with a roof structure over a...
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United States Capitol (redirect from East Portico of the U.S. Capitol)
completed around 1866 just after the American Civil War. The east front portico was extended in 1958. The building's Visitors Center was opened in the...
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Portico Quartet are an instrumental band from London, United Kingdom. They are known for their use of the hang, a modern percussion instrument. Their...
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construction continued with the addition of the semicircular South Portico in 1824 and the North Portico in 1829. Because of crowding within the executive mansion...
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The Portico: A Repository of Science & Literature (1816–1818) was a short-lived Baltimore literary journal founded and edited by Stephen Simpson and Tobias...
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Nick Mulvey (section Portico Quartet)
singer and songwriter. He played the hang as a founding member of the band Portico Quartet. In 2011 he started his career as a singer-songwriter releasing...
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Ithaka Harbors (redirect from Portico (service))
company of digital library website JSTOR, the digital preservation service Portico, and the research and consulting group Ithaka S+R. Its stated mission is...
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Portico of Agrippa (Latin: Porticus Agrippae) may refer to: Porticus Argonautarum Porticus Vipsania This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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The Portico of Glory (Galician: Pórtico da Gloria) of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral is a Romanesque portico and the cathedral's main gate created by...
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forum, an agora on three levels connected by stairways and dominated by a portico characterized by a colonnade. The complex process of national unity and...
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Pantheon, Rome (section Portico)
Agrippa's older temple. The building is round in plan, except for the portico with large granite Corinthian columns (eight in the first rank and two...
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The Portico Library, The Portico or Portico Library and Gallery on Mosley Street in Manchester, England, is an independent subscription library designed...
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The Portico of Glory (Spanish: El pórtico de la gloria) is a 1953 Spanish drama film directed by Rafael J. Salvia and starring José Mojica, Lina Rosales...
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Porticus Octaviae (redirect from Portico di Ottavia)
(Latin for the 'Portico of Octavia'; Italian: Portico di Ottavia) is an ancient structure in Rome. The colonnaded walks of the portico enclosed the Temples...
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Santa Maria in Campitelli (redirect from S. Maria in Portico)
Santa Maria in Campitelli or Santa Maria in Portico (Santa Maria in Portico di Campitelli) is a church dedicated to the Virgin Mary on the narrow Piazza...
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Portico e San Benedetto (Romagnol: Pôrtic e San Bandét) is a comune (municipality) in the province of Forlì-Cesena, in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna...
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The Portico of the Aetolians, known also as the Western Portico, is one of the largest buildings of Delphi, situated outside of the sacred precinct of...
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The Portico Dii Consentes (Latin: Porticus Deorum Consentium; Italian: Portico degli Dei Consenti), also known as the Area of the Dii Consentes or the...
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Chiesa di Santa Maria in Portico is a late-baroque church in the city center of Naples placed at the end of its homonymous street, just off the seaside...
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Portico Row is a set of sixteen historic rowhouses located in the Washington Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. These brick houses...
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in Europe. The Portico of Glory ("Pórtico da Gloria" in Galician) of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is a Romanesque portico by Master Mateo...
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Adam Saltsman (redirect from Portico (video game))
produces others. They announced four titles with the relaunch. The first, Portico, is in collaboration with Alec Holowka of Aquaria and was renamed from...
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Porticus Octavia (redirect from Octavian Portico)
Porticus Octavia (Latin for the "Octavian Portico"), also known as the Portico of Octavius, was a portico in ancient Rome built by Gnaeus Octavius in...
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Santa Maria in Portico a Fontegiusta is a Renaissance style, Roman Catholic church located on via di Fontegiusta, off Via Camollia near its intersection...
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screening the door (Latin porta), it is called a portico. When enclosing an open court, a peristyle. A portico may be more than one rank of columns deep, as...
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west porticoes contain 22 columns arranged in two rows while the north portico contains 15 columns in a single row. The reliefs of the west porticoes of...
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Porticus Argonautarum (redirect from Portico of the Argonauts)
Porticus Argonautarum (Latin for the "Portico of the Argonauts"; Italian: Portico degli Argonauti), also known as the Portico of Agrippa (Latin: Porticus Agrippae...
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main difference between a loggia and a portico is the role within the functional layout of the building. The portico allows entrance to the inside from the...
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