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In architecture, a socle is a short plinth used to support a pedestal, sculpture, or column. In English, the term tends to be most used for the bases for rather small sculptures, with plinth or pedestal preferred for larger examples. [1] This is not the case in French.
The minimum height of the plinth is usually kept as 45 cm (for buildings) [citation needed]. It transmits loads from superstructure to the substructure and acts as the retaining wall for the filling inside the plinth or raised floor. In sculpting, the terms base, plinth, and pedestal are defined according to their subtle differences.
Small Courtyard Garden. You don't actually need dirt to make a garden. Take the terrace at Mark D. Sikes’s West Hollywood home, for instance. He's made his inner courtyard a garden with not a ...
The statue was originally gilded. [11] It stands on a stone plinth. [1] The front of the plinth carries an original Latin inscription, which is translated in a modern dedicatory plaque attached to the side. Historic England's listing record does not ascribe a name to the sculptor but most sources follow Pevsner.
Winged Figure in 2011. The work stands 5.8 metres (19 ft) high, resembling a boat's hull, with two wide asymmetric wings like blades rising from a small plinth, curving towards each other and linked to each other by a series of radial rods like strings that almost cross at a single point in the middle of the sculpture.
A bronze statue on a granite pedestal, funded by a benefit performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar on November 25, 1864 at The Winter Garden Theatre starring Edwin Booth, Junius Brutus Booth Jr., and John Wilkes Booth. The statue is the second of Ward's four in Central Park. IAS Number: 65700009. Sherman Memorial aka William Tecumseh Sherman
The statue faces Apsley House, which was Wellington's London home. [2] [3] This gives the unintended impression that the Duke's back is turned on the processional way that runs through the open space in which the statue stands. The bronze statue stands on a plinth of pink Peterhead granite from Stirlinghill quarry, near Boddam, Aberdeenshire ...
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