In front was a portico-in-antis, in which the caryatide figures standing onpedestals took the place of columns.
The pedestals and capitals, touched with beaten gold, heightened the fiction of the bronze which the brush and hand of the artist feigned and imitated.
The first structure was composed of sixteen columns, with foundations on a like number of bases andpedestals crowned with beautiful and curiously wrought capitals.
Figures on pedestals of balustrades mark boundary of Sunken Garden; not for illumination, but for ornament merely.
Pedestals at base of columns, agricultural scenes in low relief, modelled by Donnelly and Ricci after designs of the architect.
Some of them fell from their pedestals while we were near them, and the clean ice-surfaces which they left behind sparkled with minute stars as the small bubbles of air ruptured the film of water by which they were overspread.
The finest specimens of "tables" which I have ever seen are to be found upon this glacier--huge masses of clean granite poised on pedestals of ice.
Here the superficial groovings could be traced to great distances, and beside the moraine were boulders poised on pedestals of ice through which the blue veins ran.
Scattered pedestals support huge bronze busts, which call to mind warriors of the Middle Ages, and some unfinished pieces.
Take two heads of plaster of Paris, and place them on pedestals on the opposite sides of a room.
The pedestals of those in front have been filled with inscriptions, both in the Greek and Palmyrene languages, which are become totally illegible.
Often only the stunted head and limbs of the wheel-crosses remain, their shafts vanished forever; still more frequently the cross-bases or pedestals alone have been chronicled and the stones that surmounted them exist no longer.
On slender pedestals stood a multitude of figures, most of them of half life-size, such as are used for the decoration of Catholic churches, chapels and cemeteries.
The walls between the columns seem to be formed out of blocks of wood, the pedestals are ornamented with a reticulated pattern.
And for the squares of marble placed between the pedestals which are 8 and are 9 br.
And for squaring and carving the moulding of the pedestals at 2 duc.
In the smaller panels below these, and between the pedestals on which the columns rested, were the royal initials E.
A few of the panels were glazed in the next century; they are readily picked out by the perfected drawing of their canopies, the fact that they completely fill the embrasures, the pedestals beneath them, etc.
In the corners, hidden away behind pedestals and curtains, a quick eye may detect stacks of pictures, ready to be brought out and put on the easel when needed.
Their burial places, marked with great heaps of stones, are frequent, and pieces of pottery, broken stone statues, and pedestals are often met with.
While the glue is wet sprinkle with sand, and, when dry, replace the covers and the boxes will be two stone pedestalsfor the statue.
The only points which attract the eye are the lofty white minarets, which rise at the four corners from pedestals each the size of a house.
The allegorical figures, stretched on segments of ellipses beneath the pedestals of the two dukes, indicate phases of darkness and of light, of death and life.
Mark's at Venice, Alessandro Leopardi, the master of the standard-pedestals of the Piazza of S.
The pedestals were either, as in the case of the New York Obelisk, composed of one solid block of stone, or else of a foundation of closely fitting blocks or a layer of stones.
The obelisks, as soon as they had been finished to the satisfaction of Pharaoh, were placed in pairs on pedestals in front of the pylons or lofty entrances of the temples.
The stove was flanked by two pedestals surmounted with baskets spilling over with fruits, carved from wood and gilded and painted in polychrome.
There are pedestals surmounted by marbles against some of the panels, and a carved bracket supporting a magnificent bust high on one of the wider panels.
Ned, making a tour of the Mars, as she swayed gently in the big shed, saw where several aluminum pedestals were mounted, fore and aft and on either beam of the ship.
The guns were mounted on pedestals that enabled the weapons to fire in almost any direction, save straight up, and of course the balloon bag being above them prevented this.
The style of the pedestals as well as the selection of the busts were all due to the taste of Mr. Jones.
Some little display in architecture had been made in constructing these frames and casings, which were surmounted with pediments, that bore each a little pedestal in its centre; on these pedestals were small busts in blacked plaster-of-Paris.
This hall derived its name from the porphyry columns, the onyx vases, the golden tables and the numerous golden vessels which, arranged on pedestals and along the walls, were said to have formerly decorated the Temple of Jerusalem.
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