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In the pediment is the usual representation of the. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1] Reference
It is crowned with a pediment, which is too high for its span. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on the State of Virginia] Reference
It is crowned with a pediment, which is too large for its span. From Wordnik.com. [The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia] Reference
Page 163 crowned with a pediment, which is too high for its span. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on the State of Virginia.] Reference
Capitol a group apparently prepared for a pediment, which is by no means mean. From Wordnik.com. [North America] Reference
Corinthian columns, surmounted by a half-circular pediment, which is richly ornamented. From Wordnik.com. [Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business] Reference
Parthenon, and the numerous and beautiful sculptures of the frieze and the pediment were the work of artists whom he directed. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
On the picture of the Parthenon point out the pediment. From Wordnik.com. [Introductory American History] Reference
Hydra pediment from the Acropolis and the pediment of the. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
The serpent (Echidna) in the poros pediment, Akropolis, Athens, 497. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
The eaves of the pediment are supported by brackets with acanthus leaves. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Over each compartment is a pediment decorated in the centre with shields. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
All the columns are attached, excepting the ten which support the pediment. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The group is supposed to have been placed in the pediment of the west gable. From Wordnik.com. [The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890] Reference
It is believed that originally they formed a group on the pediment of a temple. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The relation of the archaic pediment reliefs from the Akropolis to vase painting, 28. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
The relation of the archaic pediment reliefs from the Akropolis to vase-painting, 28. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
The subjects of the pediment sculptures are taken from the mythic history of Athena. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Two of the splendid composite columns which support the pediment of the altar in the. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
According to Pausanias, the pediment-sculptures were the work of Praxias and Androsthenes. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
Literary evidence to support this theory of the origin of pediment sculpture is not lacking. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
The pediment field from its architectonic conditions was never suited to decoration in relief. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
Set far back on the hill, with columns on its façade and a Greek pediment, it was very handsome. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference
The summit is closed with an embattled parapet, having a pediment at each end, and one in the centre. From Wordnik.com. [The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral] Reference
The summits of the towers are 222 feet high; the statue of St. Paul above the apex of the pediment is. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch] Reference
These plates were used on the cornice of the long side, and bounded the pediment space above and below. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
For the Typhon pediment, no such close analogies are possible, at least in the form and arrangement of figures. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
Over each arch rises a lofty pediment, bounded by the wave and billet ornaments, and surmounted by a perforated cross. From Wordnik.com. [The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral] Reference
The circle of the central pediment is divided by mullions into eight lights, under trefoil arches radiating from an orb. From Wordnik.com. [The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral] Reference
The beams carry a large pediment, originally adorned with groups of statues representing Jupiter's victories over the Gigantes. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The statues in the eastern pediment of the temple of Jupiter at Olympia were by Pæonios, and those in the western by Alcamenes. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Even if all analogy did not lead the other way, an artist would shrink from trying to fill up a pediment with statues in the round. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
The eastern pediment was adorned with two groups of statues, one of which represented the birth of Minerva, the other the contest of. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
In 30 the subject of the pediment-sculpture, if correctly divined by Conze, was, at any rate, closely related to the temple-divinities. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
The amphiprostyle is in all other respects like the prostyle, but has besides, in the rear, the same arrangement of columns and pediment. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
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