The architectural feature, the caryatides upholding the portico, famous around the world as the Porch of the Maidens, was referred to airily by Mando as the Girls' Place.

The plotters, however, had anticipated this and, fearing that Antony would come to Caesar's aid, had arranged for Trebonius to intercept him just as he approached the portico of Theatre of Pompey, where the session was to be held, and detain him outside.

He was buried in the portico of St. Peter's Basilica.

In the portico of the temple of Despoina there was a tablet with the inscriptions of the mysteries.

Stephen, who received many English pilgrims and envoys bringing Peterspence, was buried in the portico of the basilica of that Apostle.

The central three bays are behind a prostyle portico ( this was a later addition to the house, built circa 1830 ) serving, thanks to the carriage ramp, as a porte cochere.

The south portico was constructed in 1824 during the James Monroe administration ; the north portico was built six years later.

Contrary to speculation, the North Portico was not modeled on a similar portico on another Dublin building, the Viceregal Lodge ( now Áras an Uachtaráin, residence of the President of Ireland ), for its portico postdates the White House porticos ' design.

This was done to link the new portico with the earlier carved roses above the entrance.

The room was accessed from a courtyard with a columned portico.

For its inauguration, the portico was filled with the spoils of his wars, including statuary, paintings and the personal wealth of foreign kings.

Lucius II was buried at St John Lateran in the circular portico behind the apse.

Founded in 777, it was enlarged in the 12th century and modified again in the 16th century with the introduction of a portico.

The most dramatic element of the new design was an octagonal dome, which he placed above the west front of the building in place of a second-story portico.

The overall design was that of a Greek cross with massive portico of Corinthian columns.

It is an abbey turned into a museum, with a notable Gothic-Norman portico and a Byzantine icon which, according to the tradition, was painted by St. Luke himself.

One end of the hippodrome was semicircular, and the other end square with an extensive portico, in front of which, at a lower level, were the stalls for the horses and chariots.

Five Corinthian capitals " of extraordinary size " that were uncovered in the 19th century may have belonged to the portico, which was located in the Gardens of Agrippa.

The possibility also exists that Violet Bank is, like Point of Honor in Lynchburg, the product of a country builder who was familiar with Latrobe ’ s work in Richmond, and used that as a base from which to start, through the house could be right out of a Latrobe sketchbook with its combination of octagonal bays, recessed portico and Adam-style ceiling moulding.

This house occupied the angle of Muswell Hill Road with Colney Hatch Lane and was a three-storeyed house with portico and two-storeyed wing approached by a double carriage drive through impressive gateways.

A new portico, in keeping with the old work, was designed by Sir George Grenfell-Baines who had worked on the original designs over fifty years earlier.

A large open atrium, which once existed at the west, is now completely destroyed, having been replaced by a Renaissance portico by Giovanni Domenico and Fazio Gagini ( 1547 – 1569 ).

With the exception of its Sackville Street facade and portico, the vast structure of the General Post Office was completely destroyed-a decade-long refurbishment project only having been completed a few weeks previous to its destruction.

While the marriage is not completely unhappy, the Palladian features are marred by the lack of Palladio's proportions: the east portico is asymmetrical with the axis of the house, and trees were planted either side to draw the eye away from the design flaw.

Leoni completely redesigned the house, originally built for the Duke of Monmouth in 1680, giving it a massive Corinthian portico which leads into a vast hall with a painted and gilded ceiling, with a trompe-l ' œil dome, painted by Thornhill.

The design is for a completely symmetrical building having a square plan with four facades, each of which has a projecting portico.

The building had a central pedimented portico flanked by projecting wings in an E-shape ; it was built round a completely enclosed central courtyard that contained a well — the features that saved it during the fire of 1906, when the heat melted the plate glass windows and exploded sandstone and granite blocks with which it was faced.

From ( 1835 – 37 ) he rebuilt Royal College of Surgeons of England, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, Westminster, he preserved the Ionic portico from the earlier building ( 1806 – 13 ) designed by George Dance the Younger, the building has been further extended ( 1887 – 88 ) and ( 1937 ).

The original building was burned down in 1898, leaving just the front portico and basement intact, before the rebuilt church was destroyed again in 1941 during the German bombing of London in World War II.

Once again, the portico and basement survived and in 1957, the Tabernacle was rebuilt to a new but much smaller design accommodating surviving original features.

It is sometimes stated that Nash rebuilt the theatre entirely, but there is evidence that he incorporated a house in Little Suffolk Street with the theatre, removed two shops which were in front, in the Haymarket, built a portico, increased the number of avenues and added a second gallery to the existing auditorium.

It was rebuilt in about 40 B. C., and parts of the columns and portico from this period have been restored.

* Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, rebuilt ( 1804 ) later alter by Sir Charles Barry, Dance's portico survives

* The Birmingham Society of Artists, which had a prominent Greek Doric portico jutting into the street ( 1829, Thomas Rickman ) ( Demolished, rebuilt in a more conventional style, 1822.

In 1899 – 1900 the portico on the south face was rebuilt and extended, and the northern extension was enlarged to form a recess in the Council Chamber for the Lord Mayor's chair.

The rebuilt structure had an irregularly formed enclosed courtyard that was paved in tuff with a wooden portico.

In this occasion the tabernae which preceded it towards the Forum square and the portico were totally rebuilt.

The northern riwaq (" portico ") was rebuilt in 1089.

After being bought by Thomas Barrasford, in 1904 the theatre was rebuilt and richly ornamented in rococo style by Bertie Crewe, retaining only the façade and portico of the original building.

The building ’ s north and south wings were added in 1903, and the Class of 1927 donated the clock above the eastern portico.

For example, the portico of the Villa displays a dado rail, with mock picture frames located above.

The approach continues through the great portico into the hall, its ceiling painted by James Thornhill with the Duke's apotheosis, then on under a great triumphal arch, through the huge marble door-case with the Duke's marble effigy above it ( bearing the ducal plaudit " Nor could Augustus better calm mankind "), and into the painted saloon, the most highly decorated room in the palace, where the Duke was to have sat enthroned.

The Duke was to have sat with his back to the great 30-tonne marble bust of his vanquished foe Louis XIV, positioned high above the south portico.

Pilasters often appear on the sides of a door frame or window opening on the facade of a building, and are sometimes paired with columns or pillars set directly in front of them at some distance away from the wall, which support a roof structure above, such as a portico.

Three statues, representing Hibernia ( the Latin name for Ireland ), Fidelity and Commerce stood above the portico.

The palace, together with the surrounding gardens, was built by Fra Paola Raffaele Spinola for the public entertainment as stated in the inscription which one finds above the portico.

* The Quadriga on the Bolshoi, above the portico of the Bolshoi Theatre designed by sculptor Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, c. 1850

Rather than considering it as an adjunct to the main body of the building, he constructed it within its west wall, so that it rises above the roof, immediately behind the portico, an arrangement previously used by John James at St George, Hanover Square ( 1712 – 24 ), though James ’ steeple was much less ambitious.

One feature of the building is a front portico with four fluted Doric columns ; above them are triglyphs and metopes found on a traditional Doric entablature with a discrete cornice.

The main living quarters of the owner on the second level were clearly distinguished in importance by use of a pedimented classical portico, centered and raised above the subsidiary and utilitarian ground level ( illustrated in the Palazzo Porto and the Palazzo Valmarana Braga ).

Above this, the piano nobile accessed through a portico reached by a flight of external steps, containing the principal reception and bedrooms, and above it is a low mezzanine floor with secondary bedrooms and accommodation.

Remains of the ancient theatre and of the city walls exist in the modern town, and above it is an area surrounded by a portico, in opus reticulatum, upon the north side of which is a rectangular building in opus quadratum, probably connected with the temple of Juno.

However, it has been claimed that the central Ionic portico, the focal point of the south front, was a little spoiled later by English architect Lewis Wyatt's 19th-century addition of a box-like structure above its pediment.

Behind these columns of portico are three large windows, above which are panels depicting figures representing Health, Justice and Peace.

Progress of the State is the title of a group of sculptural figures that sits above the south portico, at the main entrance to the state capitol at Saint Paul, in the U. S. state of Minnesota.

It is perched above the sea at a height of almost 60 m. The design of the temple is a typical hexastyle i. e. it had a front portico with 6 columns.

The south front has a portico of eight columns, two columns deep on steps above a rusticated podium.

The main north front is of five bays, with a rusticated basement storey, above which the two upper storeys are unified by a giant portico and pilasters at the angles.

The upper floor above the Gigantomachy housing the Telephus frieze also had an encircling portico.

The principal facade has as its ground floor a rusticated semi-basement, above which is the piano nobile at the centre is a four columned portico with a pediment, the portico is flanked by a single high sash window on each side.