A portico or covered colonnade that precedes the main portico of a building.
From Latin 'ante' (before) + 'portico' (covered entrance with columns), from 'porticus.' An architectural term for a preparatory covered passage.
Renaissance architects sometimes added anteporticos to classical buildings to create more impressive ceremonial approaches—they functioned as architectural preludes that built anticipation.
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