PORTICO. 



POUTICO. 



judicious arrangement, two column* being projected at etch cod although by no nicana duplexing 'in the ground-plan, produce* an 

 i to produce a group of three at the external angle*, which, ' awkward effect in the structure itielf or an elevation of it ; because, 



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instead of bring included beneath the pediment, these columns and 

 their entablature form mere little jutting-out bits, attacked to the 



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flanks, and almost suggest the idea of it* being originally intended to 



continue them as lateral colonnades parallel to the hexastyle beneath 

 the pediment (as-in the next figure). Though this portico is only 

 hexastyle in front, and has only four column* within, there are 

 eighteen columns altogether, besides the half and three-quarter column* 

 attached to the wall behind, a number sufficient to have formed 

 an octastylo triprostyle with nix inner columns, namely, four disposed 

 as in the portico of the Pantheon (Piij. 1), and two forming a pronaos 

 recess for the centre doorway, an in fi\i. !>. 



Our next example, which is the jx.rtico of tin* Kitzwilliam Museum 

 at Cambridge (Fig. 7), differs materially from the foregoing one, pre- 

 senting a richer system of calumniation in some respects ; for though, 

 technically speaking, no more than a monoprostyle octant vl'', it 

 is extended by lateral loggias, three intercolumns in width, and has 

 besides considerable depth within. 



Although only a hexastyle, the portico of the Kazan Cathedral, St. 

 Petersburg, towards the Nevsky Prospect, is an unusually rich ex.implu 

 of a polystyle prostyle, and of certain peculioritiea of arrangement 



Fig. 7. 



Fig. 8. 



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which will be better understood from the plan itself (Fiy. 8) than 

 from any verbal explanation. The cut also shows a portion of the 



Fig. 9. 



iwrvpibff colonnade* (in imitation of thuic by Bernini in the Piazza di 

 Han Pietro at Kotne), and the mode in which, they are connected, or 



rather not connected with, but merely brought up to the portico itself, 

 which i so awkward and disagreeable as materially to detract from ih.- 

 effect of the wli'-le. 



Mr. Uandy Deering's small Doric distyle in anti, in the front of the 

 building originally erected for the Pimlico Proprietary School in 

 Kbury Street (Fiy. 9), affords an example of a portico with .111 inner 

 screen carried up half way behind tho columns, and with lateral "IK -n- 

 ings at the ends of the portico between small antic, a, a, &c , descend- 

 ing as low as the top of the screen, and two of them resting on its 

 exterior ends. The idea is a valuable one, and admits of almost eml- 

 les* diversity and new combinations. 



The only other example we shall offer is that of the semicircular, or 

 rather segmental loggia, forming tho north-west angle of the Bank of Knu- 

 land (Fig. 10), the most tasteful and picturesque piece of design that Sir 

 J. Soane ever produced. The effect of the inner columns, the contrast 

 they afford to the others, their shafts being plain, while the rest are all 

 fluted, the varied perspective appearance accordingly as the spectator 



