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Caryatides
Caryatides Car`y*at"i*des, n. pl. [L., fr. Gr. ? (?)
priestesses in the temple of Diana (the Greek Artemis) at
Cary[ae] (Gr. ?), a village in Laconia; as an architectural
term, caryatids.] (Arch)
Caryatids.
Note: Corresponding male figures were called Atlantes,
Telamones, and Persians.
Meaning of Caryatides from wikipedia
-
version of a
caryatid, i.e., a
sculpted male
statue serving as an
architectural support. The term is
first recorded in the
Latin form
caryatides by the Roman...
- The
Caryatids is a
science fiction novel by
American writer Bruce Sterling,
published in 2009. It
tells the tale of the four
Mihajlovic "sisters", clones...
- In antiquity, two
large Caryatids from the
Lesser Propylaea adorned the
sanctuary of the Gr****
goddess of
agriculture Demeter at
Eleusis in
Greece as...
- Nut-Tree,
whose priestesses were
called the
caryatides,
represented on the
Athenian Acropolis as the
marble caryatids supporting the
porch of the Erechtheum...
-
Great Hall (Grande
Salle b****e), now
known as Hall of the
Caryatids (French:
Salle des
Caryatides),
first completed in 1549,
replaced what had been the Great...
- The
Townley Caryatid is a 2.25m high
Pentelic marble caryatid,
depicting a
woman dressed to take part in
religious rites (possibly
fertility rites related...
- leaves. The
frieze is
sometimes omitted—for example, on the
portico of the
caryatides of the Erechtheum—and
probably did not
exist as a
structure in the temple...
- Minerva, with a
victory in her hand,
stands above the
building of the
Caryatides, on a
columned pedestal, near
which is a band with trumpets, cymbals,...
- des
Caryatides of the
Lescot Wing. One of the more
recent ceremonial gatherings in the
Louvre was a
candlelit dinner given in the
Salle des
Caryatides on...
- Ajax. The
caryatid is the
female precursor of this
architectural form in Greece, a
woman standing in the
place of each
column or pillar.
Caryatids are found...
