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Definition of Pediments
1. pediment [n] - See also: pediment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pediments
Literary usage of Pediments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, During the Middle of the Fourth by Jean Jacques Barthélemy, Jean Denis Barbié du Bocage (1825)
"•Both French and English travellers have exhausted their invention in conjectures,
to restore one of these pediments ; and they have collected everything ..."
2. The Art of the Greeks by Henry Beauchamp Walters (1906)
"In considering these pediments from the artistic point of view, ... The nude
forms stand equidistant from the Aegina pediments on the one hand and the ..."
3. Apollo: An Illustrated Manual of the History of Art Throughout the Ages by Salomon Reinach (1907)
"The pediments of the Temple of Aphaia at Angina.—The pediments of the Temple of
Zeus at Olympia.—Myron and the Statue of the Discobolus. ..."
4. Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture: A Series of Essays on the History of Art by Adolf Furtwängler (1895)
"The difference in drapery between the frieze and the pediments on the one hand
... On the contrary, as the frieze and pediments were made in the lifetime of ..."
5. Rudiments of Architecture, Practical and Theoretical by Joseph Gwilt (1839)
"pediments (see Plate I.) represent the gables of roofs, and on a large scale
should not ... There are but two species of pediments allowable, the triangular ..."
6. Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum: Being a Description of by William Sandys Wright Vaux (1851)
"Thus the number of figures introduced upon the pediments appears to have ...
The Sculptures of the pediments of the Parthenon were not quite perfect, ..."
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