In that year the party of explorers, who had previously discovered the pedimental sculptures of Aegina, began excavations which were completed in 1812.
The head of the horse nearest the eye (B) looks outwards, and has projected beyond the plane of the pedimental cornice, so that it must have caught the light.
If we confine our attention to the extant pedimental figures, we find wide differences of opinion as to their interpretation.
But neither in the protagonists nor in the rest of the design on the vase is there that close correspondence in type and action which would justify the conclusion that the vase-painter copied directly any portion of the pedimental composition.
Of the pedimental groups, which appear to have once existed at each end of the temple, nothing now remains except the marks of the attachment of sculptures.
The hard, conventional style, however, is not in accordance with that of the pedimental sculptures.
In 1674 Jacques Carrey, a painter in the suite of the Marquis de Nointel, French ambassador at the Porte, made sketches of large portions of the frieze and metopes, and of the then extant portions of the pedimental compositions.
It is very probable that the plinth does not belong to the pedimental sculptures at all, and Sauer's plan of the floor of the pediment seems to leave no room for it.
She bowed to Dudley's merits; she read off the honorific pedimental letters of a handsome statue, for a sign to herself that she passed it.
Finds made in the excavations, however, have shown that the temple also had pedimental groups.
It was formerly supposed that the phrase "over the columns" pointed to the existence of sculptured metopes, but no pedimental groups.
On the question of the original character of the pedimental group, the Heraion at Olympia, probably the oldest Greek columnar structure known, furnishes important light.
It was simply that only figures in the round can satisfy the requirements of a pedimental composition.
It covered the cornice of the sides, completely Page 33 bounded the pedimental space, above and below, and finally crowned the whole structure in the acroteria.
Athena appears here as a spectator, though she has no part in thepedimental group; but in every other point, in the drawing of the Hydra, of Herakles and Iolaos, the identity is almost complete.
Herein they resemble also another archaic pedimental relief, found near the old temple of Dionysos at Athens, and representing just such a procession of satyrs and mænads as appears so often on vases.
This process of change was especially rapid in pedimental groups, for the reason stated above.
It is held that, if artists had become accustomed to carving pedimental groups in wood, the first examples that we have in stone would not show so great inability to deal with the conditions of pedimental composition.
It would surely be strange if the pedimental group, framed in this way by vase designs, were in no way influenced by them.
From this point of view, it does not seem impossible that pedimentalgroups might have fallen under the influence of vase technic.
This is quite in accord with the famous passage in Pindar,[54] attributing to the Corinthians the invention of pedimental composition.
It is quite as certain, in spite of the fragmentary condition of the remains, that they were pedimental compositions and the earliest of the kind yet known.
On the other hand, if the potter had copied the pedimental group the copy could perfectly well have been an exact one.
The inference seems certain that the pedimental decoration, if present at all, was either of wood or of terracotta, or was merely painted on a smooth surface.
So soon as this was discovered and so soon as the art of sculpture found itself able to supply the want, a new period in pedimental decoration began.
Of the pedimental figures and the acroteria considerable fragments have been recovered, and we may with confidence assume that at all events the models for these were by Timotheus.
Of the archaic temple of Apollo, built as Herodotus tells us by the Alcmaeonidae of Athens, the only sculptural remains which have come down to us are some fragments of the pedimental figures.
Every one knows how noble are the pedimental sculptures of the Parthenon.
To either side, between fluted pilasters, are segmental arched fireplaces with heavy mantel shelves above, supported by carved consoles, while beyond these are single doors with pedimental heads.
Philadelphia has no handsomer example of the enriched pedimental doorhead than the interior treatment of the entrance doorway of the Blackwell house, Number 224 Pine Street.
The wood trim is severely simple throughout, from the heavy molded cornice under the eaves to the pedimental recessed doorway with its Ionic columns and entablature.
The house is a great, square, hip-roofed structure two and a half stories high with two large square chimneys and severely plain pedimental dormers.
But the characteristic type of pedimental door trim in Philadelphia takes a different form.
Over the doorway, with its simple flanking seats, there is the familiar pedimental and slightly projecting hood, while the door itself is of the quaint divided type, permitting the upper half to be opened while the lower half is closed.
Four marble steps give approach to the high, pedimental porch before a door of delightful grace and dignity.
It is a boxlike structure of plastered rubble masonry twenty-six feet square and two and a half stories high, with a hip roof having simple pedimental dormers and two oppositely disposed chimneys.
This was followed by the pedimental style of head dress, which began about 1415, and continued till late into the following century.
The more rudimentary figure of the “Typhon,” also preserved in this museum, which was doubtless a pedimental sculpture from some earlier acropolitan temple, bears abundant traces of paint on its body and on the beards of its triple head.
Of the notable sculptures that must have abounded in Delos once, comparatively little remains; certainly nothing to compare with the charioteer and the Lysippus at Delphi, or with the Hermes and pedimental figures at Olympia.
The columns are still standing to a large extent, but the pedimental sculptures have been removed to Munich, so that the spot is robbed, as the Acropolis is, of a portion of its charm.
This episode had little appropriateness to the Olympic site, so far as I know, but the ease with which the Centaur lent himself to the limitations of pedimental sculpture might well explain the adoption of the incident here.
It is a pity, because the Æginetan pedimental figures were most interesting, furnishing a very good idea of the Æginetan style of sculpture of an early date.
The pedimental sculptures, it is true, are gone save for a fragment or two, having been carried off to England.
The comparative study of this amphora, the archaicpedimental sculpture and the Caryatid Porch seem to justify the following conclusions.
The archaic pedimental sculpture of poros which is now in the Acropolis Museum (Wiegand, Porosarchitektur der Akropolis zu Athen, Taf.
Along this wall in the pedimental sculpture figures are passing toward the temple.
The variety of tracery in windows of this style is very great, and they frequently have pedimental and ogee canopies over them, ornamented in the same manner as those over doors: examples of this kind may be found at York Cathedral.
Triangular or pedimental canopies and pinnacles, more enriched than before with crockets and finials, yet without redundancy of ornament, also occur in the churches built during this century.
In general by its plain triangular or pedimental head, its projecting more from the building than the Norman buttress, and from its being less in breadth.
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