He was the laughing man, the caryatid of the weeping world.
Of later date is a Caryatid figure, probably of the Neronian epoch.
Again, in many respects the bucchero vases are merely the counterparts of works in bronze, as in the case of the braziers and the bowl with Caryatid supports given in Plate LVII.
Caryatid Court of Palms The Court of Palms is restful, meditative, a place where the feeling of magical allure takes a deeper, more subjective character.
The two obelisks in the caryatid court were erected during the eighteenth dynasty, at a time when those parts of the temple which lie between the obelisks and the outer wall were not yet in existence.
At Medinet-Abou the portico is terminated laterally by two antæ, one corresponding to the row of columns, the other to the row of caryatid piers.
The figure already mentioned, the Caryatid of the Erechtheum, is a model of perfect simplicity.
Laura, who, in the main, does not like her, hinted to me several times that the caryatid is in love with me.
This caryatid has the limpid, innocent eyes of a child, and is unsophisticated and sincere like one.
The correspondence is complete when one notes that these figures are moving toward an entrance which answers to the later Caryatid Porch.
East and west facades were to be equidistant from the north porch and from the Caryatid Porch which would have served to break the monotony of the long rear wall.
A restricted use of the Caryatid Porch is a certain inference from the following facts.
In a word the Caryatid Porch is not an arbitrary creation but is related in thought to the cult of the temple.
The procession including Arrephoroi moving toward an entrance which was the predecessor of the Caryatid Porch suggests an explanation of the fact that the latter porch was not for common use.
A procession moving from the Propylaea to the Caryatid Porch had exactly the background of the sculptured figures.
The drain at the south-west corner of the North Porch which brought water from the direction of the Caryatid Porch both before and after the present Erechtheum was built may have carried excess water from the [Greek: phrear].
It is possible that the absence of a proper foundation beneath the threshold of the door in the Caryatid Porch was due to the presence there of a course or courses of stone which surrounded the well and trident-mark.
The comparative study of this amphora, the archaic pedimental sculpture and the Caryatid Porch seem to justify the following conclusions.
In the first place it may be observed that the entrance to the Erechtheum at the Caryatid Porch corresponds in position closely to the south entrance of the Pre-Persian Erechtheum.
Doerpfeld there lies a suggestion in the fact that the north and south doors have the same axis, although the Caryatid porch has not.
The Caryatid Porch is a bold translation into marble of the Arrephoroi and the disc-covered chest they carried upon their heads to the joint temple of Athena and Erechtheus.
He had the air of a caryatidon a vacation; he carried nothing but his revery, however.
Jean Valjean, who was present, supported the caryatid with his shoulder, and gave the workmen time to arrive.
It has moreover the rare and distinctive feature of what is known as a caryatid porch, that is to say, one in which the entablature is upheld by caryatides or statues representing female figures.
The caryatidform of pier is generally found, in temples, in the peristyles of the fore-courts or the hypostyles of the pronaos.
Next, and at a slightly higher level, came a hypostyle hall; its roof was supported by twelve square piers, those forming the central avenue being of caryatid form and higher than the others.
There are neither dromos nor pylon, properly speaking, and only four caryatid pillars; but there is an open court with a hypostyle hall and a sanctuary cut in the rock.
Lepsius's Denkmæler; plate 6, for example, shows what thecaryatid became at Napata.
This time it was broken by, perhaps not the loudest, but certainly the most travelling voice yet--the voice of the caryatid beneath the bracket with the bust upon it.
And Britomart Belchamber, indifferent alike to the glances of the Oxford men and their trepidation in her presence, stood like a caryatid under a wall-bracket with an ivy-green replica of Bastianini's Dante upon it.
Here the Oriental influence of the architectural form, the mosque, becomes most pronounced, changing to French again in the caryatid porches.
They are alike, French in style, and fronted with caryatid porches.
This is the use of small caryatid figures which appear at the springing of the diagonal ribs (Fig.
Its originality has been impaired by the inevitable and generally baneful influence exercised by foreign models upon the taste of a people not confident in its own strength and superiority.
The house was built towards the end of the 16th century, with a wood-framed front and caryatid brackets; and the principal windows bayed, their lower fronts enriched with panels of carved work.
To the left was the Oak Parlour, with carved mantelpiece, of chest-like form; and caryatid jambs, supporting a slab sculptured with the story of Diana and Actaeon.
