Editing Proscenium (section)

==Baroque==
While the proscenium arch became an important feature of the traditional European theatre, often becoming very large and elaborate, the original ''proscaenium'' front below the stage became plainer.

The introduction of an [[orchestra pit]] for musicians during the [[Baroque]] era further devalued the ''proscaenium'', bringing the lowest level of the audience's view forward to the front of the pit, where a barrier, typically in wood, screened the pit.  What the Romans would have called the ''proscaenium'' is, in modern theatres with orchestra pits, normally painted black in order that it does not draw attention.