A pediment is the highly visible and memorable “triangle” found above porticos — two-story porches — doorways, windows and dormers. Developed by ancient Greeks as the decorative end to a gable roof, ...

In classical architecture, a pediment is a low-pitched triangular gable on the front of a building. The motif has survived through the ages, though in forms that have sometimes deviated wildly from ...

Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 286. Bach, Penny Balkin, "Public Art in ...

United States General Services Administration, 1988. Gurney, George, "Sculpture and the Federal Triangle," Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985, pg ...

Justice is the central theme of the sculptural program of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, and the so-called "Old Seer" is one key to the problem of justice represented in the east pediment. The subject ...

The pediment from the Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath is one of the best-known objects from Roman Britain. It originally looked down on people entering the temple precinct from a height of 12 metres.

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . The University of Chicago Press publishes more than 90 scholarly journals that cover a wide range of disciplines, from the humanities and the social ...

It may be the single most important architectural detail of the last fifty years. Emerging bravely from the glassy sea of Madison Avenue skyscrapers in midtown Manhattan, the open pediment atop Philip ...