These noble compositions have been restored with tolerable completeness, and now stand next to the pediments of the Parthenon in conception and in general design.
The design of both pediments still seems to me masterly, especially that of Alkamenes, but there can be no doubt that the execution is far below that of the Parthenon marbles.
The composition of the groups in the pediments and friezes has been described by Pausanias (V.
It is worth pausing for a moment upon this disposition, which was so usual as to be almost conventional in the pediments sculptured during the best epochs of Greek art.
It must be urged in answer that the pediments were meant to be seen about forty feet from the ground, and that the painting of the figures must have brought out the features of the drapery neglected in the carving.
Groups of figures were admitted upon the pediments and metopes, because these groups formed clear and massive designs visible from a distance.
The shattered pillars and the torn pediments will not bear so great a strain: and the traveller feels forced to admit a sense of disappointment, sore against his will.
Both pediments represent the battle over the body of Patroclus.
In both pediments there are decided approaches to realism.
The pediments of the temple at Olympia have been assigned, by tradition, one to Alcamenes, one to Paionios.
It is not certain whether Onatus sculptured the groups which adorned the pediments of the temple of Athena at Aegina, groups now in the Glyptothek at Munich, but certainly these famous statues are decidedly in his style.
He did much decorative work including the pediments of the temple of Athena at Tegea.
He also speaks of numerous temples in Rome and other towns with remarkable sculptured pediments and cornices; the existing remains of some of these will presently be discussed.
The walls, formerly enriched with all the ornaments of the Corinthian order, now present nothing but pediments of niches and tabernacles, of which almost all the supporters are fallen to the ground.
The bottom of these apartments still retains pediments of niches and tabernacles, the supporters of which are destroyed.
The pediments of Ionic buildings were rarely or never adorned with groups of sculpture.
The roof was almost invariably of wood and gabled, forming at the ends pediments decorated in most cases with sculpture.
The mouldings were minute and richly carved; pediments were replaced by steep gables, and mullioned windows with stone crossbars were used in preference to the simpler Italian openings.
The lower parts of two upright posts of its doorway remain, together with a fragment of the transverse lintel: several pieces of columns are lying about, and pediments of these in situ.
Picture: Scythopolis] The general form is that of an oval, the centre of which has four pediments for the arch of a bridge, or a triumphal arch, over a rivulet that traverses the whole obliquely.
From this central square of four pediments extends right and left one long colonnade, or dromos.
In the four angles, and in the middle of each side, are classical pediments with volutes.
In the broken and curled pediments of the doorway and chimney-piece we get a decided indication that the seventeenth century was well advanced when this work was done.
We shall find similarpediments in the tower of Wren's church, St. Andrew's, Holborn.
Which of you can have houses or columns or extensive pediments on top of his tiled roof?
The classic portico, with pediments, was constantly employed by them; and small pediments over window heads were common.
Speaking more generally, we find continually in the pediments reminiscences of ceramic drawing and treatment.
On the body of the Triton and the Echidna of the pediments no attempt is made to indicate movement and contortion by the position of the scales; it is everywhere the lifeless conventionality of archaic vase-drawing.
As to specific resemblances between the pediments of the Acropolis and vase-pictures, the subjects of all the groups are Page 39 such as appear very frequently on vases of all periods.
The contest between her and Neptune was represented on one of thepediments of the Parthenon.
The deep recesses of their pediments were peopled with colossal forms, exhibiting some legendary scene appropriate to the place or the occasion of the building.
On the other hand the foliage of the spandrils has pronounced bulbous or ogee curves and the pediments contain compound cusping; both features being characteristic of ornament of the first half of the fourteenth century.
No one pauses in particular delight beneath the pediments of the Admiralty; nor does scenery of shipping ever become prominent in bas-relief without destroying it: witness the base of the Nelson pillar.
Similar semicircular pediments are found in the facade of the church of San Zaccharia at Venice (1515), but are purely decorative because the roof behind is not semicircular like that of the Miracoli.
The tympana of the two pediments and all the metopes were enriched with the finest sculpture, and were realized, designed, and executed by Pheidias and his pupils.
Broken pediments with volute terminals were placed over doors and windows; while a slight admixture of wrought and moulded bricks was often added to give some degree of elegance and richness to the façades.
That of Gallienus is a mere gateway, and that of Drusus seems part of an aqueduct; yet, coarse as they are, each has its Corinthian columns, and pediments on a portion of the fronts.
This edifice was built by an able architect, named Libon; and it was adorned by two sculptors of equal skill, who enriched the pediments of the principal front with elaborate and elegant ornaments.
Then the island seemed on fire, and the scene of their late festivity became a brilliant palace, with pediments and columns and statues, bright in the blaze of colored flame.
It has bold buttresses, and a belfry stage lighted by two windows on each side, with tall crocketed pediments above them, and below the battlemented parapet a line of rich sunk tracery.
It is of four stages in height; the three lower stages quite plain, and the belfry rather rich, with a window in each face, panelling all over the wall above, and crocketed pediments over the windows.
They have generally several bells hung in openings in the wall, and are often nearly the whole width of the front, and finished with cornices and broken pediments in the most approved fashion of the worst style of Renaissance.
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