anteportico

Noun

anteportico (plural anteporticos or anteporticoes)

1. An outer porch or vestibule in front of the main portico.
   • The porch or anteportico, a, the vestibulum, propylon, or prothyron, also termed the first entrance, was sometimes, as still is the case in that of the church of S. Clemente, prepared for shelter by curtains.[1853?], “Basilica”, in The Dictionary of Architecture […], volume 1, London: Thomas Richards, →OCLC, page 36 [244]
   • These columns stand on high bases and face low and narrow spaces (c). These are little more than 6 m. deep and are interposed between the main chapels. The curve of their outer walls appears to be preserved in the pilasters of the little cloister to the right of the anteportico; indeed, according...1969, Richard Krautheimer, translated by Howard Saalman, “Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome and the Rotunda of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem (1935)”, in Studies in Early Christian, Medieval, and...