These two pilasters correspond to the others, and adorn the sides of sixteen windows that go right round the tribune, each with a light twelve palms and a half wide and about twenty-two palms high.
It is true, indeed, that he has made four great Prophets in stucco, which are in the niches between the pilasters of the first great arch of S.
These have pilasters to correspond to them, and one can walk all the way round and see from the central spaces between the pilasters, where the windows are, the interior of the tribune and the church.
Frequently the outside dimensions of thesepilasters are somewhat increased, giving greater stability and artistic effect.
By leaving hollow flues within them, and using these flues as conductors for heated air which may be forced in by a blower, such pilasters afford a means for the most efficient method of warming the building.
The curious manner of cutting up the wall by pilasters and framed spaces cannot properly be judged without the bronze bas-reliefs that they were intended to contain.
The motives of the genii or angels, wise children whispering in the ears of the foretellers, seem to be inspired by the sculpture of Giovanni Pisano as seen in the pilasters of the pulpit of the Church of San Andrea at Pistoia.
The cornices and pilasters are of simple Renaissance architecture, the only ornaments he allowed himself to use being similar to those he would have used as a sculptor.
Twenty-four decorative pilasters of two children each, in monochrome.
There is one reservation, and that is, that the twenty-four groups of two children forming pilasters are in pairs, of the same outline but reversed; as they are differently lighted they may still be taken as different pictures.
The walls were divided up into panels by a series of fluted pilasters surmounted by elegantly and fancifully moulded capitals upon which rested the above-mentioned cornice.
It is rich and subdued in colour, the vaults and pilasters covered with faded frescoes.
In 1404 the Signoria decreed that, within ten years from that date, the Arts who had secured their pilasters should have their statues in position, on pain of losing the right.
The pilasters are richly decorated with sculptured foliage and figures of animals in the intervals between the leaves.
In 1293, Arnolfo di Cambio levelled the Piazza, removed the tombs, and plastered the pilasters in the angles of the octagonal with slabs of black and white marble of Prato, as now we see.
When you look at them a little more closely, you see that there are bits of terra-cotta work in friezes andpilasters and brackets here and there, which would not have been done anywhere except in the home of Thorwaldsen.
It is long, and not high, the wall divided into spaces by carved pilasters between every two windows.
Four broad pilasters on each side of the church are frescoed in a curious mixing of blues, light and dark, with reds and black, which have faded and blended into a delicious tone.
The middle section of this is open, and is framed by a couple of high pillars or pilasters and a cornice, which together formed perhaps the most distinguishing feature of this part of the house.
At the farther end from the entrance you will perceive to right and left two large recesses or bays, generally with pilasters on either side.
The two =doorways= opposite each other are likewise of the same fine polished marble, with pilasters and pillars of the Ionic order, supporting heavy entablatures, on the apexes of which are antique busts.
We may again notice here the five lofty doorways, surmounted by flat architraves, and the oak pilasters in the dado as characteristic of Kent.
The four fine carved vases of Portland stone, surmounting the four pilasters of the same, are probably those mentioned in the old accounts as carved by Gabriel Cibber for L787 5s.
The doors of the church at Gisors (1575) are carved with figures in niches subdivided by classic pilasters superimposed.
The bands or pilasters (if we may so call them) which ornament the jambs of the door-ways, are crowned with graceful foliage in a very pure style; and the pedestals of the lateral pillars are boldly underworked.
The execution of these is particularly admired, especially that of the figure of Prudence; but a row of still smaller figures, in devotional attitudes, carved upon the pilasters between the virtues, are in higher taste.
The walls are divided by many vertical lines of pilasters which rise from the plinth to the eaves-cornice.
The windows were very plain, the walls lofty, the roof flat, and ornamented with corbel-tables up the gables and under the eaves, and pilasters were used at intervals instead of buttresses.
There is first of all a semi-circular auditorium open to the sky, and only remarkable for a mean arrangement of pilasters at the back.
The simple groining of the Frari is entirely executed in brick, and springs in the aisles from pilasterscorbelled out of the walls midway in height, just as in Sta.
In all these examples thepilasters at the angles are carefully marked.
Here I saw a good and little altered Romanesque church, with pilasters in place of buttresses, and walls crowned with the usual eaves-arcade.
The walls are all divided into four panels in height by borders, with painted pilasters for vertical divisions, and the panels are generally arched and cusped.
The tower has pilasters at the angles, and two intermediate on each face, so that there is a triple division in elevation, and all the horizontal string-courses are marked by arched corbel-tables.
It has a very bold shaft at the angle, whilst the jambs have pilasters ornamented at their angles by a twisted cord-like moulding, which is frequently met with in the later work.
The delicate tracery of the basement is divided by slender pilasters and the frieze beneath the symmetric cornice is richly festooned, parrots nestling in the foliage among the flowers.
Its outer walls are plain, except groups of three short pilasters each surrounding the edifice above the cornice, forming a sloping rather than perpendicular frieze, like those at Palenque, and in most Yucatec monuments.
Two pilasterssupported the roof, and formerly were covered with inscriptions or sculptured slabs representing various subjects; these flags have been broken or taken away, and not one remains in loco.
The lower storey consisted of six rooms entered by six doorways, the front ornamented by a now much broken row of pilasters half rounded, their attachment to the building being on the flat side.
Fluted pilasters frame the windows and the tablets.
The story is more than plausible since the high, narrow arches and pilasters are characteristic of his work.
In the overmantel, double dog-eared molding outlines the center panel and two flat fluted pilasters reach from mantelshelf to the heavy modillioned cornice which is carved in alternating modillions and rosettes.
The paneled mantel flanked by fluted pilasters is in keeping with the other woodwork which is good throughout the house.
The pilasters are composed of blocks of black stone; while for the capitals and the upper portion of the building only pink stone has been used.
The more southerly is the largest; and the round arches which support the roof rest upon four pilasters of curious design.
It is supported by 8 carved pilasters at the angles, with a central one; rising from these are narrow arches with dog-tooth moulding.
They are filled with diaper work, and the supporting pilasters are of various-coloured Irish marbles.
He next did the lower walls and pilasters with many miracles of Our Lady, and other things which may be recognised by their style.
There arepilasters at the angles outside, small windows high up in the walls, and a fine round-arched doorway on the western side.
The buttresses are mere pilasters at the top, and the eaves-cornices are carried round them and up the flat-pitched gable-line in the way so commonly seen in Italian Gothic.
The exterior is very plain; but the chancel apse is divided by pilasters which run up to and finish in a corbel-table at the eaves; and the tower has also an eaves' corbel-table.
The walls generally have flat pilasters at short intervals, finishing under the eaves-cornices, and the principal apse has the common arrangement of three-quarter engaged shafts dividing it into three bays.
This tower has pilasters at the angles and in the centre, and is divided into equal stages in height by horizontal corbel-tables.
The lantern is octagonal above the roof, with a window in each side, pilasters at the angles, and an arcaded corbel-table at the eaves.
It is remarkable that the pilasters of the second story are not arranged with any regard to those of the first, and are consequently in many cases not superimposed upon the lower pilasters.
Externally the whole building was chastely and tastefully ornamented by the tall narrow arches and reed-like pilasters already mentioned.
The west, or outside of the gate is adorned with three ranges of pilastersand their entablements of the Tuscan order.
The beautiful pilasters between the frescoes, and the Angels and Prophets under the arch, are likewise Bazzi's.
The Evangelists on the ceiling, the eight Saints on the pilastersare also by Benozzo.
Round the well run pilasters connected by silver chains with little balls, and it communicates by a 1/8 in.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pilasters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
