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[[Palladio]] was a pioneer of using temple-fronts for secular buildings. In the [[UK]], the temple-front applied to [[The Vyne]], Hampshire, was the first portico applied to an [[English country house]].
A '''pronaos''' ({{IPAc-en|UK|p|r|oʊ|ˈ|n|eɪ|.|ɒ|s}} or {{IPAc-en|US|p|r|oʊ|ˈ|n|eɪ|.|ə|s}}) is the inner area of the portico of a [[Greek temple|Greek]] or [[Roman temple]], situated between the portico's colonnade or walls and the entrance to the ''[[cella]]'', or shrine. Roman temples commonly had an open pronaos, usually with only columns and no walls, and the pronaos could be as long as the ''cella''. The word ''pronaos'' ({{lang|grc|{{Script|Grek|πρόναος}}}}) is [[Greek language|Greek]] for "before a temple". In [[Latin]], a pronaos is also referred to as an ''anticum'' or ''prodomus''. The pronaos of a Greek and Roman temple is typically topped with a pediment.
== Types ==
The different variants of porticos are named by the number of columns they have. The "style" suffix comes from the Greek {{lang|grc|{{script|Grek|στῦλος}}}}, "column".<ref name="EB1911">{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Decastyle |volume=7 |page=910}}</ref> In Greek and Roman architecture, the pronaos of a temple is typically topped with a [[pediment]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gates |first=Charles |title=Ancient Cities: The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome |date=2013 |publisher=Taylor and Francis |isbn=9781134676620 |location=New York |pages=209}}</ref>
=== Tetrastyle ===
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The [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] favoured the four columned portico for their [[pseudoperipteral]] temples like the [[Temple of Portunus]], and for amphiprostyle temples such as the [[Temple of Venus and Roma]], and for the [[prostyle]] entrance porticos of large public buildings like the [[Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine]]. Roman provincial capitals also manifested tetrastyle construction, such as the [[Capitoline Temple]] in [[Volubilis]].
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=== Hexastyle ===
==== Greek hexastyle ====
[[File:Temple of Concordia, Agrigento.jpg|thumb|The
Some well-known examples of classical Doric hexastyle [[Greek temple]]s:
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* Temple E at [[Selinus]] (465–450 BCE) dedicated to Hera
* The [[Temple of Zeus, Olympia|Temple of Zeus at Olympia]], now a ruin
* Temple F or the so-called "[[Temple of
* The "unfinished temple" at [[Segesta]] (''c.'' 430 BCE)
* The [[Temple of Hephaestus]] below the [[Acropolis]] at Athens, long known as the "Theseum" (449–444 BCE), also one of the most intact Greek temples surviving from antiquity
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[[File:The Parthenon (3472367103).jpg|thumb|The western side of the octastyle [[Parthenon]] in Athens]]
Octastyle buildings had eight columns; they were considerably rarer than the
=== Decastyle ===
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== Gallery ==
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Gizeh - Mastaba des Seschemnefer IV 2019-11-03a.jpg|[[Ancient Egyptian architecture|Ancient Egyptian]] portico of the [[Mastaba of Seshemnefer]] IV ([[Giza pyramid complex]], Egypt)
Κνωσός 0624.jpg|[[Minoan civilization#Architecture|Minoan]] portico of the [[Knossos]] Palace ([[Crete]], Greece)
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