In the pediment above the portico is a relief of the Genius of America, by Persico; and in the pediment above the north portico is a group representing the Civilization of the United States, by Crawford.
The Transept itself with its graceful pillars, its lofty pediment surmounted by colossal figures of the Apostles, is a very pleasing composition.
The niche above the pedimentis occupied by the figure of S.
The bronze groups at the base of the pediment are especially fine.
Young, their architect, in 1836, the pediment of the original design is given as though it existed.
When the Houses of Parliament, now to be seen stretching across Simcoe Place, were first built, a part of the design was a central pediment supported by four stone columns.
To a central building were attached wings with gables to the south: the windows had each an architectural decoration or pediment over it.
The pediment of each wing, sustained aloft on fluted Ionic columns, seen on a fine day against the pure azure of a northern sky, is something enjoyable.
The famous Quadriga or brick chariot which adorned the pediment of the great temple of Jupiter on the Capitol at Rome was made at Veii, and was a remarkable proof of the superiority of its people in this species of art.
Four splendid fluted Corinthian columns of Verde antico, with gilded capitals, support the pediment of the high altar in Sta.
Two of the splendid composite columns which support the pediment of the altar in the Corsini chapel of this church are of this marble, and were also taken from the Arch of Marcus Aurelius in the Corso.
A pair of fluted Roman Ionic columns, supporting the pediment of the altar of the chapel of St. John the Baptist, in the Baptistery of St. John Lateran, are the only examples of ophite pillars in Rome.
The bas-relief on the pediment of the Monument was carved by a Danish sculptor, Caius Gabriel Cibber, the father of the celebrated comedian and comedy writer Colley Cibber; the four dragons at the four angles are by Edward Pierce.
The tympanum of the pediment of the portico is filled with sculpture, by Richard Westmacott, R.
The front exhibits an arched portal, consisting of an arched pediment, supported on columns of the Composite order, with an ornamental niche above; in the pediment are the Company's arms.
To recur once more to the much-abused analogy of statuary:--the work of Aeschylus may be compared to a colossal frieze, while that of Sophocles resembles the pediment of a smaller temple.
The shield in the centre of the pediment bears the arms of Dean Honywood.
The architectural decorations have all disappeared, with the exception of a fragment of a pediment at the south end of the room, on which F.
A pediment in the shape of an entablature overhangs the entire monument, casting over it a deep shadow full of nuances; and it is this shadow, skilfully graduated, that gives to the work its rich, soft color.
The pediment of the Palais Biron is brilliant in the sunlight.
The statues in the eastern pediment of the temple of Jupiter at Olympia were by Pæonios, and those in the western by Alcamenes.
On the easternpediment was represented the birth of Minerva, and on the western the contest between Minerva and Neptune for the guardianship of the soil of Attica.
On the interior part of the pediment was painted a plume of feathers, and various military trophies.
It presented two fronts, in the Tuscan order; the pediment was adorned with various naval trophies, and at top was the figure of Neptune, with a trident in his right hand.
And as the pediment in one end of the temple of the Olympian Zeus, preserved in the museum near by, deals with this story, it may be in order to speak of it.
The cella was divided into three sections, the middle one of which was sacred to Jupiter, that on the right to Minerva, that on the left to Juno Regina; the top of the pediment was ornamented with a terra-cotta quadriga.
The frieze is carved with trophies and panoplies of various kinds; the reliefs of the pediment represent the emperor Antoninus[?
It is supposed that the whole group once ornamented the pediment of a temple--probably the temple of Diana or Latona.
They formed the ornaments of the pediment of the Temple of Jupiter in the island of Ægina, and represented a group of fighting and dying warriors, with an armed Pallas in the centre: but the subject is not known.
The pediment field from its architectonic conditions was never suited to decoration in relief.
Here then we have stated approximately the conclusion which seems at least probable on other grounds, namely, that the tympanum of the pediment was originally filled with a group in terracotta, beyond doubt painted and in low relief.
Literary evidence to support this theory of the origin of pediment sculpture is not lacking.
These plates were used on the cornice of the long side, and bounded the pediment space above and below.
Examples in low relief are the Hydra pediment from the Acropolis and the pedimentof the Page 35 Megarian Treasury at Olympia, which, on artistic grounds, can be set down as the two earliest now in existence.
The Typhon Pediment of the Akropolis, 28-41 II-III.
The relation of the archaic pediment reliefs from the Akropolis to vase painting, 28 II.
Even if all analogy did not lead the other way, an artist would shrink from trying to fill up a pedimentwith statues in the round.
It is very noticeable that these reliefs, unlike the others which in general furnish the closest analogies, the metopes of the temple at Selinous and the pediment of the Megarian Treasury at Olympia, have the ground unpainted.
Then I turned away from the shore And I saw the pedimentof a great temple Standing white against the sky, And beneath the pediment rows of marble columns Like giant trees in a forest of frozen beauty.
La Martine, "recumbent beneath the shade of the Propylaea: my eyes fixed on the falling pediment of the Parthenon, I feel all antiquity in what it has produced of divine; the rest is not worth the language that has described it.
The plate of George Dudley Seymour has the unusual feature of a large representation of an old door, with its carved posts, and pediment of high-boy style.
This pediment was the work of Phidias, and, like so many of the former monuments of ancient art and civilization, is now forever lost to mankind.
It is taken from an ancient Etruscan patera (mirror), now in the Museum at Bologna, and is supposed to have been copied from the pediment of the eastern or main entrance to the Parthenon, or temple of Minerva.
Returning to the Parthenon, we see that the same principle is observable in the pediment and metope sculptures, the frieze of the cella being really a mural decoration consisting of facing slabs of marble.
Above the beams and walls let the mutules project to a distance equal to one quarter of the height of a column; along the front of them nail casings; above, build the tympanum of the pedimenteither in masonry or in wood.
The pediment with its ridgepole, principal rafters, and purlines are to be built in such a way that the eaves shall be equivalent to one third of the completed roof.
On the summit of eachpediment was a Victory, of gilt brass; and at each angle a large vase of the same metal.
The eyes are just attracted by eight Corinthian columns, on which rests the pediment of this immortal monument.
Located within the pediment at both houses is an elliptical ventilator.
The gable end at Analostan has a relatively shallow cornice, common in the period, outlining a pediment strikingly similar to the gable ends of the wings at Huntley.
On each side of the circular pediment is a little "Mansard" window in the roof, and on the pediment itself are two statues.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pediment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
