These somewhat squat structures of ebonized wood, each with a tiered base resting on four circular pad feet, are crowned by elaborate pediments. |
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On either side of the mahogany headboard and footboard are columns with brass capitals supporting pediments. |
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Greek temple pediments were stripped bare and the sculpture set into the pediments of temples in Rome. |
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The stage was a long oval, with strange bronze horns, pediments, and clamshells decorating it. |
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Like the great house, its windows were surmounted by alternating triangular and rounded pediments. |
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The principal doorways of both buildings are framed by pilasters and display graceful semicircular fanlights crowned with open pediments. |
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I've never seen so many colonnades, entablatures, pediments, porticos, coffered ceilings and statues adorning so many structures. |
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I found two hero stones influenced by classical art, as good as any of the pediments in Halebid, while two others were folkish. |
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All the houses will have a traditional look with curved timber framed windows, decorative roof detail and over-door pediments. |
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With an original oak floor, this area also features a carved oak ceiling rose, pediments, cornices and architraves. |
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He was portrayed standing under a tabernacled canopy consisting of three arches slightly pointed, surmounted by crocketed pediments. |
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The prevailing style of the roughly 3,800 neighboring houses features large gables and verandas, with porticos, pediments, and glossy interiors. |
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Above the doorways, cherubs cluster around rich pediments and everywhere there is the sparkle of freshly-applied 24-carat gilding. |
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There's ornament in columns and cornices, rustication and pilasters, urns, anthemia, and pediments, with temples and colonnades high in the sky, topped by spires and finials. |
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Like the pediments, the metopes include local elements and offered a model of heroic behavior to the ancient viewer, especially to Olympic athletes. |
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The resulting amalgamation of sleek new blocks and bustling malls is worlds away from the conventional image of porticoes, pediments and municipal chest puffing. |
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The upper windows are of a restrained Classical form, with pediments set on columns, but are blind and contain niches. |
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This section ends in superscaled square-topped pediments, another Blum trademark. |
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The Caryatid from the Erechtheion stood in the centre, while most pieces from the east and west pediments were evenly displayed in a semi-circle around it. |
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The composition of groups of figures in reliefs and on pediments combined complexity and harmony in a way that had a permanent influence on Western art. |
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