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Pediments are a form of
gable in
classical architecture,
usually of a
triangular shape.
Pediments are
placed above the
horizontal structure of the cornice...
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erosional remnants on a
pediment.
Individual pediments formed where canyons emerge from the high
ground may
merge to form
coalescing pediments that may remain...
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pediments returned, as
gradually did
sculptural groups within them,
becoming very po****r for
important buildings in the 19th century. The
pediment begins...
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pediments of the
Parthenon are the two sets of
statues (around fifty) in
Pentelic marble originally located as the
pedimental sculpture on the east...
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Pediments.
Journal of ****enic Studies, 94 pp. 171. doi:10.2307/630432 Diebold,
William J. 1995. "The
Politics of Derestoration: The
Aegina Pediments...
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requires the
presence of an
infant but
there is no
infant on the frieze. Two
pediments rise
above the
portals of the Parthenon, one on the east front, one on...
- Parthenon. The
pediments were
colourfully painted and
their porous limestone has
allowed the
ancient paint to
survive well. One of the
pediments (perhaps the...
- The
Progress of
Civilization is a
marble pediment above the
entrance to the
Senate wing of the
United States Capitol building designed by the sculptor...
- side of the main
pediment, and in the
group of two figures, personifying, respectively,
Peace and War,
above the east and west
pediments.
Architecture of...
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sculpture in
pediments increased dramatically.[citation needed] The
advent of the
Great Depression largely brought the use of
pediment sculpture to a...
