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A caryatid (/ ˌ k ɛər i ˈ æ t ɪ d, ˌ k ær-/ KAIR-ee-AT-id, KARR-; [1] Ancient Greek: Καρυᾶτις, romanized: Karuâtis; pl. Καρυάτιδες, Karuátides) [2] is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head.
The Caryatid was removed from Eleusis in 1801 by Englishman Edward Daniel Clarke, who later donated it to the University of Cambridge; it remains on display in the Fitzwilliam Museum. The second Caryatid B , preserved in a better condition than Saint Demetra, was unearthed in Eleusis some ninety years after the other one was taken, and it is ...
The caryatid is the female precursor of this architectural form in Greece, a woman standing in the place of each column or pillar. Caryatids are found at the treasuries at Delphi and the Erechtheion on the Acropolis at Athens for Athene.
Luba caryatid stool, from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. While many objects of Luba art appear to be functional, their utilitarian purposes have been replaced or augmented by symbolic purposes. Sculpted caryatid stools serve symbolically as seats of power and sites of memory for deceased kings and chiefs rather than serve as places to ...
Whitney's caryatid figure dated back to 1913 when she won an award for it at the Paris Salon and from the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.It had been modeled for the Arlington Hotel in Washington, D.C. [4] The original hotel was demolished in 1912 to make room for a larger hotel, that was to include Whitney's caryatid, but its funding fell through and it was never built. [5]
The sixth caryatid was stolen (unproven) by the command of British Lord Elgin and is now held in the British Museum in London. [4] [5] There are two different views for the meaning behind the caryatid maidens in the literature, the first being a maiden dancer from the village of Karyes [3] and the second an imprisoned slave. [6]
The Didarganj Yakshi (or Didarganj Chauri Bearer; Hindi: दीदारगंज यक्षी) is one of the finest examples of very early Indian stone statues.It used to be dated to the 3rd century BCE, as it has the fine Mauryan polish associated with Mauryan art, but another Yakshi is also found but without polish so it is also dated to approximately the 2nd century CE, based on the ...
Relief of ancient Indian Buddhists (monks at left, a lay couple at right, statues behind) circumambulating a stupa in a chaitya temple. Circumambulation [1] (from Latin circum around [2] and ambulātus to walk [3]) is the act of moving around a sacred object or idol.