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portiekaltaar

English translation: portico altar

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Dutch term or phrase:portiekaltaar
English translation:portico altar
Entered by: Kirsten Bodart

18:32 Sep 29, 2018
Dutch to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Architecture / Baroque altars
Dutch term or phrase: portiekaltaar
"Misschien ontwierp van Loon ook het barokke *portiekaltaar* waarin het schilderij nog altijd te bewonderen is."

This is the type of altar in a baroque church that looks like an ornate portico basically.

The only translation I've been able to find is 'portico altar', but it chiefly occurs on Flemish sites that don't seem to be very English-sounding.

Anyone any idea how this is called in English?
Kirsten Bodart
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:49
portico altar
Explanation:
I believe portico altar is the right architectural term. See end p.9 and top of p.10.: "The result is that the vertical thrust of the façade and the forward projection of the portico anticipate the compositional arrangement of the high altar area on the interior so that the spiritual region is also enframed within a "portico-altar" device that fully mirrors the portico entrance of the exterior."
http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/webclient/StreamGate?folde...

Or: Flemish Art and Architecture, 1585-1700, By Hans Vlieghe. Yale University Press:
https://goo.gl/CcTpTs

They use "porch altar" and porch in general here, but it's far less common.
http://tojdac.org/tojdac/VOLUME6-AGUSPCL_files/tojdac_v060AG...

Check also here for portico:
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/architecture-glossary.htm

(from Malestrom Dictionary of Architecture and Construction):
portico 1. A covered entrance whose roof is supported by a series of columns or piers, commonly placed at the front entrance to a building.
2. A stoa.
portico-in-antis A portico that is recessed within a structure instead of projecting from the façade; also see anta.
porticus
1. Same as portico. 2. A side chapel; common in many Anglo-Saxon churches and usually used for burials of important people. portigo Same as portico.

And this:
Narthex porch across the west end of a church, used by those not yet taking full communion, e.g. penitents. the portico of an ancient church, especially with columns or pillars; the vestibule of a church leading to the nave. The narthex is an endonarthex if it occupies a part of the nave of the church; an exonarthex if it is located on the exterior of the facade with an open portico.
Portico
covered colonade at the entrance to a building.
Porticus
small porch built on the north or south side of English pre-Conquest churches. Sometimes a porticus was built on both sides, thus forming rudimentary transepts.
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/architecture-glossary.htm
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Lianne van de Ven
United States
Local time: 12:49
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portico altar


Explanation:
I believe portico altar is the right architectural term. See end p.9 and top of p.10.: "The result is that the vertical thrust of the façade and the forward projection of the portico anticipate the compositional arrangement of the high altar area on the interior so that the spiritual region is also enframed within a "portico-altar" device that fully mirrors the portico entrance of the exterior."
http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/webclient/StreamGate?folde...

Or: Flemish Art and Architecture, 1585-1700, By Hans Vlieghe. Yale University Press:
https://goo.gl/CcTpTs

They use "porch altar" and porch in general here, but it's far less common.
http://tojdac.org/tojdac/VOLUME6-AGUSPCL_files/tojdac_v060AG...

Check also here for portico:
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/architecture-glossary.htm

(from Malestrom Dictionary of Architecture and Construction):
portico 1. A covered entrance whose roof is supported by a series of columns or piers, commonly placed at the front entrance to a building.
2. A stoa.
portico-in-antis A portico that is recessed within a structure instead of projecting from the façade; also see anta.
porticus
1. Same as portico. 2. A side chapel; common in many Anglo-Saxon churches and usually used for burials of important people. portigo Same as portico.

And this:
Narthex porch across the west end of a church, used by those not yet taking full communion, e.g. penitents. the portico of an ancient church, especially with columns or pillars; the vestibule of a church leading to the nave. The narthex is an endonarthex if it occupies a part of the nave of the church; an exonarthex if it is located on the exterior of the facade with an open portico.
Portico
covered colonade at the entrance to a building.
Porticus
small porch built on the north or south side of English pre-Conquest churches. Sometimes a porticus was built on both sides, thus forming rudimentary transepts.
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/architecture-glossary.htm


Lianne van de Ven
United States
Local time: 12:49
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
PRO pts in category: 19
Grading comment
Thanks for confirming Lianne!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard
59 mins
  -> Thanks, Phil.
agree  Michael Beijer: also corroborated by a private nl<>en glossary I once received from the person behind the former Webster's Online Dictionary (websters-online-dictionary.org)
11 hrs
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