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Types of pediment; "curved" and "broken" examples at the lower right. Pediments are a form of gable in classical architecture, usually of a triangular shape.Pediments are placed above the horizontal structure of the cornice (an elaborated lintel), or entablature if supported by columns. [1]
The Parthenon's west pediment depicted the contest between Athena and Poseidon over Attica and the east pediment the birth of Athena. [15] Classical archeologists since Johann Joachim Winckelmann's Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (published 1764) have recognized Greek pediment sculpture, in particular the pediments of the Parthenon, as the standard of the highest-quality art in antiquity. [16]
Pediment – Very gently sloping inclined bedrock surface; Pediplain – Extensive plain formed by the coalescence of pediments; Peneplain – Low-relief plain formed by protracted erosion; Planation surface – Large-scale land surface that is almost flat; Potrero – Long mesa that at one end slopes upward to higher terrain
The Monastery of Santa María de Huerta (Spanish: Monasterio de Santa María de Huerta) is a Cistercian monastery located in Santa María de Huerta, a town of the Spanish Province of Soria, within the autonomous community of Castile and León. The first stone of the building was laid by Alfonso VII of León and Castile in 1179. [1]
Segmental (curved) Pediment The decorative pediment of the Valencia Cathedral, Spain, features a segmental or curved pediment Open Pediment This image features an open pediment where the usual strong horizontal line (at the bottom) of the pediment is incomplete and filled by an emblem.
Pedimental sculptures in the United States were rare prior to the 1880s, most surviving examples in cities along the east coast. The earliest seems to be Whitehall (1765), outside Annapolis, Maryland, attributed to English architect Joseph Horatio Anderson and English-born carver William Buckland, typical of early dependence on European talent.
Pediments first emerged early in Classical Greece around 700-480 BCE, with early examples such as the Parthenon remaining famous to this day. [5] Pediments spread across the Hellenistic world with the rest of classical architecture. engravings on the entablature at the time were sometimes blank but often contained statues of the gods and ...
The Rizal Shrine in Calamba is an example of bahay na bato.. Báhay na bató (Filipino for "stone house"), also known in Visayan languages as baláy na bató or balay nga bato, and in Spanish language as Casa de Filipina is a type of building originating during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.