Other aediculae were small shrines within larger temples, usually set on a base, surmounted by a pediment and surrounded by columns.

The contest of Athena and Poseidon was the subject of the reliefs on the western pediment of the Parthenon, the first sight that greeted the arriving visitor.

* Apotheosis of Democracy by Paul Wayland Bartlett, a pediment on the east front of the House of Representatives Portico.

The Gorgon as depicted on the western pediment from the Temple of Artemis ( Corfu ) | Artemis Temple of Corfu, on display at the Archaeological Museum of Corfu.

Headless cherubs on the pediment, seemingly by Robert Mylne.

* The sculpture Apollo with battling Lapiths and centaurs is built on the west pediment of the Temple of Zeus in Olympia ( approximate date ).

In art Chrysaor's earliest appearance seems to be on the great pediment of the early 6th century BC Doric Temple of Artemis at Corfu, where he is shown beside his mother, Medusa.

An archaic Gorgon ( around 580 BC ), as depicted on a pediment from the Temple of Artemis ( Corfu ) | temple of Artemis in Corfu, on display at the Archaeological Museum of Corfu

Walter Burkert notes that though the story of Hippodamia's abduction figures in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and on the chest of Cypselus ( c. 570 BCE ) that was conserved at Olympia, and though preparations for the chariot-race figured in the east pediment of the great temple of Zeus at Olympia, the myth of the chariot race only became important at Olympia with the introduction of chariot racing in the twenty-fifth Olympiad ( 680 BCE ).

The top of the walls is decorated with a fine frieze and other sumptuous fittings, including the fireplace between the windows and the fine doorway leading into the Hall of the Full Council, whose Corinthian columns bear a pediment surmounted by a marble sculpture showing the female figure of Venice resting on a lion and accompanied by allegories of Glory and Concord.

Other assorted statuary in the guise of martial trophies decorate the roofs, most notably Britannia standing atop the entrance pediment in front of two reclining chained French captives sculpted in the style of Michelangelo, and the English lion devouring the French cock, on the lower roofs.

Motto: " Mea Gloria Fides " (" Trust is My Renown "), which is displayed in large Roman capitals on the frieze of the classical pediment of Wentworth Woodhouse

Standing on the pediment are three lead statues, of Neptune, Venus and Pan.

An old view on an altarpiece in the Lübeck fortress monastery shows a Holsten Gate with five pediment towers.

On the acroteria of the pediment are three statues by John Smyth: Mercury on the right, with his Caduceus and purse ; Fidelity on the left, with her finger on her lip and a key in her hand ; and Hibernia in the centre, resting on her spear and holding a harp.

Image: pediment. on. pantheon. in. rome. arp. jpg | The 2000-year-old Pantheon in Rome, Italy.

Others are based either on mistaken ideas of English words ( e. g. " footing " meaning jogging, not a pediment ), grammar ( e. g. " un pin's " ( with the apostrophe in both singular and plural ) meaning a collectable lapel pin ) or word order ( e. g. talkie-walkie meaning a walkie-talkie, a hand-held two-way radio ).

By bringing the central bay forward very slightly, and capping it with a pediment that breaks into the roof balustrade, Galilei provides an entrance doorway on a more-than-colossal scale, framed in the paired colossal Corinthian pilasters that tie together the façade in the manner introduced at Michelangelo's palace on the Campidoglio.

His contribution consists of a broad frieze decorated with squares and everything above it, including the four white-green pilasters and a round window, crowned by a pediment with the Dominican solar emblem, and flanked on both sides by enormous S-curved volutes.

Jean Guillaume Moitte created a pediment sculptural group The Fatherland crowning the heroic and civic virtues that was replaced upon the Bourbon Restoration with one by David d ' Angers.

A variant is the " segmental " pediment, where the normal angular slope of the raking cornice is replaced by one in the form of a segment of a circle, in the manner of a depressed arch.

Each face of the octagonal plan is bored d ' a window, each one framed of two red granite columns, with which the semicircular arch is surmounted d ' a triangular pediment.

On the façade a central triangular pediment overlies a larger, lower one.

The imposing principal facade of Oamaru Stone consisted almost solely of one huge portico constructed of six ionic columns, while the facade was crowned by a high pediment more in the style of Vitruvius than Palladio, and behind the great facade stretched the single body of the church, with the remaining facades in a less severe Romanesque style.

The inscription was located on the pediment of a church that predates the current one, over the entrance door.

The treasury was also one of the first Greek buildings to utilize falling and reclining figures to fill the corners of the pediment.

* pediment sculpture Orchestration, one of the five pediment sculptures at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, for architect Jean-Pierre Cluysenaer, 1875

The fourth gopura is later, from the Khleang / Baphuon periods, and has on its southern outer pediment, " one of the masterpieces of Preah Vihear " ( Freeman, p. 162 ): a depiction of the Churning of the Sea of Milk.

The gopura has three entrances, the east-facing pediment of the northern one shows " the offering of the animals in the forest of Parilyyaka ", where the Buddha retreated after leaving Kosambi.

The pediment shows the story of Herakles stealing Apollo's tripod that was strongly associated with his oracular inspiration.

The eastern pediment shows a moment of stillness and " impending drama " before the beginning of a chariot race, the figures of Zeus and the competitors being severe and idealised representations of the human form.

The gopura's eastern pediment shows Indra, who was associated with that direction, mounted on his three-headed elephant Airavata.

The eastern pediment of the gopura shows Śiva Nāṭarāja ; the west-facing pediment has an image of Durgā.

* The east-facing pediment on the southern library shows Śiva seated on the summit of Mount Kailāsa, his mythological abode.

* The west-facing pediment on southern library shows Śiva again seated on the summit of Mount Kailāsa.

Another pediment shows the burning of Khāṇḍava Forest.

* The east-facing pediment on the northern library shows the god of the sky Indra creating rain to put out a forest fire started by the god of fire Agni for purposes of killing the nāga king Takṣaka who lived in Khāṇḍava Forest.

Above that, the pediment shows Britannia receiving the manufacturers of Birmingham.

A Renaissance drawing of a damaged relief in the Louvre Museum shows a four-horse chariot ( quadriga ) beside a two-horse chariot ( biga ) to the right of the latter at the highest point of the pediment, the two statues serving as the central acroterion, and statues of the god Mars and goddess Venus surmounting the corners of the cornice, serving as acroteria.

The pediment of the treasury shows the story of Herakles stealing Apollo ’ s tripod which was strongly associated with his oracular inspiration.

In the pediment of the temple of Zeus in Olympia, the single figure of Apollo is dominating the scene.

Aedicular door surrounds that are architecturally treated, with pilasters or columns flanking the doorway and an entablature even with a pediment over it came into use with the 16th century.

Its pediment was originally from the old Dominican convent and was identified in 1988.

The pediment over the main entrance is decorated by sculptures by Sir Richard Westmacott depicting The Progress of Civilisation, consisting of fifteen allegorical figures, installed in 1852.

File: BM ; RM18-GR, The Parthenon Galleries 1 Temple of Athena Parthenos ( 447-438 B. C ) + North Slip Room ,-Full Elevation & Viewing North -. JPG | Room 18-Parthenon statuary from the east pediment and Metopes from the south wall

On the pediment of the Hierapolis mill, a waterwheel fed by a mill race is shown transmitting power through a gear train to two frame saws, which cut rectangular blocks by way of some kind of connecting rods and, through mechanical necessity, cranks.

The pediment sculptures are a tribute to Praxias and Androsthenes of Athens.

In the Renaissance period the Italian doors are quite simple, their architects trusting more to the doorways for effect ; but in France and Germany the contrary is the case, the doors being elaborately carved, especially in the Louis XIV and Louis XV periods, and sometimes with architectural features such as columns and entablatures with pediment and niches, the doorway being in plain masonry.

The Supreme Court building's east pediment depicts Moses holding two tablets.

Cassin compared the Declaration to the portico of a Greek temple, with a foundation, steps, four columns and a pediment.

In Cassin's model, the last three articles of the Declaration provide the pediment which binds the structure together.

* c. 580 BC — Gorgon Medusa, detail of sculpture from the west pediment of the Temple of Artemis, Korkyra, is made.

* The Archaeological Museum, inaugurated in 1967, was constructed to house the exhibit of the huge Gorgon pediment of the Artemis temple in the ancient city of Korkyra, excavated at Palaiopolis in early 20th century.

The clay ornaments were limited to the roof of buildings, decorating the cornice, the corners and surmounting the pediment.

In the three orders of Ancient Greek architecture, the sculptural decoration, be it a simple half round astragal, a frieze of stylised foliage or the ornate sculpture of the pediment, is all essential to the architecture of which it is a part.

The sculpture is always located in several predetermined areas, the metopes and the pediment.

Remnants of the Archaic architectural sculpture ( 700-500 BC ) exist from the early 6th century BC with the earliest surviving pedimental sculpture being remnants of a Gorgon flanked by heraldic panthers from the centre of the pediment of the Artemis Temple of Corfu.

The western pediment has Apollo as the central figure, " majestic " and " remote ", presiding over a battle of Lapiths and Centaurs, in strong contrast to that of the eastern pediment for its depiction of violent action, and described by D. E. Strong as the " most powerful piece of illustration " for a hundred years.