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Definition of Caryatides
1. n. pl. Caryatids.
Definition of Caryatides
1. caryatid [n] - See also: caryatid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caryatides
Literary usage of Caryatides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Innocents Abroad: Or the New Pilgrims' Progress by Mark Twain (2001)
"... rows of great columns, eight in each, at either end, and single rows of
seventeen caryatides. each down the sides, and beautiful edifices ever erected. ..."
2. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"For instance, suppose him to set up the marble statues of women in long robes,
called caryatides, to take the place of columns, ..."
3. Museum criticum or, Cambridge classical researches. by James Henry Monk, Charles James Blomfield, Cambridge University Press (1826)
"SOME REMARKS ON THE B. caryatides OF ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE. ... Pliny XXXVI.
mentions some caryatides of Praxiteles which were at Rome ; and those with which ..."
4. A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture by William Chambers, Joseph Gwilt (1825)
"OF PERSIANS AND caryatides. BESIDES columns and pilasters, it is sometimes
customary to employ representations of the human figure, to support entablatures ..."
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