prostyle

How To Use prostyle In A Sentence

• Athens, Philo set up columns in front before the temple, and made it prostyle. The Ten Books on Architecture
• It is an amphiprostyle tetrastyle Doric temple of poros.
• The prostyle is in all respects like the temple in antis, except that at the corners, opposite the antae, it has two columns, and that it has architraves not only in front, as in the case of the temple in antis, but also one to the right and one to the left in the wings. The Ten Books on Architecture
• The temple was rebuilt with the same dimensions of the cella, but it probably became an amphiprostyle temple, without outer rows of columns.
• The amphiprostyle is in all other respects like the prostyle, but has besides, in the rear, the same arrangement of columns and pediment. The Ten Books on Architecture
• Among them are a Roman bridge and a rock-hewn theatre, with nine tiers of seats and an orchestra fifty-seven feet in diameter, also a nymphaeum, an aqueduct, a large prostyle temple with portico and colonnades, and a peripteral temple preceded by a double colonnade. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
• This new temple had the same Doric tetrastyle amphiprostyle plan as the subsequent one.
• If the portico were formed merely by a row of columns without the aid of walls it was called a prostyle temple; if the same construction were also placed at the rear of the building it was amphiprostyle. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
• In Greece proper there is no known instance of a peripteral Ionic temple, but the order was sometimes used for small prostyle and amphiprostyle buildings, such as the Temple of A History of Greek Art
• If the portico were formed merely by a row of columns without the aid of walls it was called a prostyle temple; if the same construction were also placed at the rear of the building it was amphiprostyle. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon