EditorialPompeii. Quadriporticus of the Theatres or Gladiators Barracks. Located behind the big stage of the theatre, it was originally the porticoed square ("porticus post scaenam") where the public gathered before and during the intervals of the shows. During...
EditorialSpain, Catalonia, Girona province, Empuries. Greek Neapolis. Archaeological remains of the Stoa, porticoed building for commercial and social activities. 2nd century BC.
EditorialView of the Great Saloon, or Hall of Audience at Yuen-ming-yuen / From a drawing by J. Barrow. 1793. Groups of Chinese men in conversation under the trees by a road in the foreground, with the porticoed great hall of audience of the palace of Yuen-ming...
EditorialView of the Great Saloon, or Hall of Audience at Yuen-ming-yuen / From a drawing by J. Barrow. 1793. Groups of Chinese men in conversation under the trees by a road in the foreground, with the porticoed great hall of audience of the palace of Yuen-ming...
EditorialSkinner's Church, Delhi. General view of St James's Church, known as Skinner's Church after Col James Skinner, who commissioned the building. Designed by Maj Robert Smith, it was built btween 1826-36. Cruciform plan, with three porticoed porches and a ...
EditorialBeggars, street-sellers, priests, soldiers, an officer on horseback, a shoe-shiner and a crowd of spectators gathered around a puppet show, passers-by and a town crier in Milan's porticoed Piazza del Duomo in the foreground. Shops under the arches on b...
EditorialA view of Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, with a man looking at the theatre bills on a wall on the left, and a carriage on the road in front of the fa?ade of the porticoed theatre on the right . A CORRECT VIEW OF THE THEATRE AT PHILADELPHIA. [London]...
EditorialA commanding officer and his squad in the market square (Plaza Vieja) in Havana (La Habana), with children playing around a fountain, and priests, soldiers and women carrying baskets in the foreground. Figures in the balconies of the porticoed houses e...