In ancient Greek religion Artemis Caryatis was an epithet of Artemis that was derived from the small polis of Karyai in Laconia ; there an archaic open-air temenos was dedicated to Carya, the Lady of the Nut-Tree, whose priestesses were called the caryatidai, represented on the Athenian Acropolis as the marble caryatids supporting the porch of the Erechtheum.

The pulpit is supported by plain columns ( two of which mounted on lions sculptures ) on one side and by caryatids and a telamon on the other: the latter represent St. Michael, the Evangelists, the four cardinal virtues flanking the Church, and a bold, naturalistic depiction of a naked Hercules.

This church was completed in 1822, and is notable for the caryatids on north and south which are based on the " porch of the maidens " from the Temple of the Erechtheum.

In the 16th century, from the examples engraved for Sebastiano Serlio's treatise on architecture, caryatids became a fixture in the decorative vocabulary of Northern Mannerism expressed by the Fontainebleau School and the engravers of designs in Antwerp.

His caryatids for the balcony of the Hôtel de Ville of Toulon were executed between 1655 and 1657.

In Dorchester House ( demolished in 1929 to make way for the hotel of the same name ), Park Lane, there was some of his work, especially a very noble mantelpiece supported by nude female caryatids in a crouching attitude, modelled with great largeness of style, now in the central refreshment room at the Victoria and Albert museum.

The supports for early guéridons were often modeled on African, ancient Egyptian or ancient Greek human figures ( inspired by caryatids ).

As a sculptor, he received a medal of honor in Madrid for his The Cider Press, and he made four caryatids of The Seasons for the Appellate Court House, New York.

In Early Modern times, the practice of integrating caryatids into building facades was revived, and in interiors they began to be employed in fireplaces, which had not been a feature of buildings in Antiquity and offered no precedents.

It is normal now that she should crumble, like the other caryatids of that great and marvelous epoch that was ours ".

Commonly the fireplace would have an elaborate overmantle with stone or wood carvings or even plasterwork which might contain coats of arms, heraldic mottoes ( usually in Latin ), caryatids or other adornment.

On the south side, there is another large porch with columns, and on the south, the famous " Porch of the Maidens ", with six draped female figures ( caryatids ) as supporting columns, each sculpted in a manner different from the rest and engineered in such a way that their slenderest part, the neck, is capable of supporting the weight of the porch roof while remaining graceful and feminine.

Caryatids remained part of the German Baroque vocabulary ( illustration, right ) and were refashioned in more restrained and " Grecian " forms by neoclassical architects and designers, such as the four terracotta caryatids on the porch of St Pancras New Church, London ( 1822 ).

The game background also included some elements later re-used in Necromunda, such as the ' spook ' psychic drug, and some which were disregarded, such as the ' caryatids ', largely unexplained blue skinned cherubs which were presented as unique and integral to Necromundan life.

Hadrian, a very well travelled emperor, borrowed these designs, such as the caryatids by the Canopus, along with the statues beside them depicting the Egyptian dwarf and fertility god, Bes.

Atlantes and caryatids were noted by the Roman late Republican architect Vitruvius, whose description of the structures, rather than surviving examples, transmitted the idea of atlantes to the Renaissance architectural vocabulary.

( See image above ) These are also called atlas, atlantes or atlantids ; they are the male versions of caryatids.

* The window opening to the West is surrounded by two 17th-century wooden caryatids.

The room above has a particularly fine plaster ceiling and chimneypiece of stucco caryatids and panelling interlaced with studded bands sprouting into large flowers.

Over the fireplace is a large stone overmantel, which is decorated with pairs of atlantes and caryatids framing the arms of Elizabeth I.

The Romans also copied the Erechtheion caryatids, installing copies in the Forum of Augustus and the Pantheon in Rome, and at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli.

Augustus Saint Gaudens | St. Gaudens ' caryatids

Many caryatids lined up on the facade of the 1893 Palace of the Arts housing the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota has caryatids as a motif on its eastern facade.

File: Caryatids on Jenner's Department Store, Princes Street Edinburgh. jpg | Victorian caryatids on an Edinburgh department store

File: Caryatids, Nogales, Mexico. jpg | Cast concrete caryatids in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico

File: Caryatids representing the seasons. jpg | caryatids representing the seasons by Thomas Shields Clarke, Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State, NYC

All that remains of the old manor today is one Jacobean over-mantel with termini caryatids, and some panelling in the ' new ' Chicheley Hall.

Along with the Panathenaic frieze, one of the six caryatids of the Erechtheion was extracted and replaced with a plaster mold.

The Zacco Palace is a Baroque building, its Corinthian columns support balconies of wrought iron work, caryatids and grotesques.

The interior of the entire complex was decorated in a combination of pseudo cave-and-classic architecture, with faux rock-work and stone, real marble floors, triumphal arches, brass railings, painted mosaics, atmospheric sky domes, banners, torches, Roman " classical " furniture and lamp reproductions, statuary, caryatids and telemons, bas-relief faces of mythical personages, and intricately cast " carved " designs, all theatrically lighted.

The shrine dedicated to Apollo was originally dedicated to Gaia and shared with Poseidon.

She had a shrine in Rome on the Aventine hill, according to tradition dedicated by king Servius Tullius.

Not only did he keep a personal shrine dedicated to her in his bedroom, she regularly appeared on his coinage — in four different attested reverse types — and he founded a legion, Legio I Minervia, in her name.

To foster the worship of the imperial family, he erected a dynastic mausoleum on the site of Vespasian's former house on the Quirinal, and completed the Temple of Vespasian and Titus, a shrine dedicated to the worship of his deified father and brother.

On the latter there is a Muslim shrine dedicated to that prophet.

The other mound, Nabī Yūnus, has not been as extensively explored because there is an Arab Muslim shrine dedicated to that prophet on the site.

* Yasukuni Shrine ( Tokyo ), a shrine dedicated to Japan's war dead.

The second shrine on top of the main pyramid at Tenochtitlan was dedicated to Tlaloc.

Some Americans may build a shrine in their home dedicated to loved ones who have died, with pictures of them.

The Ise Shrine located in Honshū, Japan houses the inner shrine, Naiku dedicated to Amaterasu.

The original pagan shrine room was dedicated to local water deities, and a wall painting depicting three water nymphs dating from this period can still be seen in a niche in the room.

There is also a shrine there, dedicated to commemorate Princess Shahr Banu, eldest daughter of the last ruler of the Sassanid Empire.

The oracle of Apollo then instructed them to atone for their error and rid themselves of their suffering by honouring the poet, which led to the shrine being dedicated to him.

A Bacchic community shrine dedicated to Liber Pater was established in Cosa ( in modern Tuscany ), probably during the 4th century AD.

), a Perseus, a satyr — Marsyas — admiring the flute and Minerva ( Athena ), a Hercules, which was taken to the shrine dedicated by Pompey the Great at the Circus Maximus, Discobolus ( the discus thrower ), and an Apollo for Ephesus, " which Antony the triumvir took from the Ephesians, but the deified Augustus restored it again after being warned in a dream ".

He noted that the tusks had been taken to Rome as booty from the defeated allies of Mark Anthony by Augustus ; " one of the tusks of the Calydonian boar has been broken ", Pausanias reports, " but the remaining one, having a circumference of about half a fathom, was dedicated in the Emperor's gardens, in a shrine of Dionysos ".

Similar constructions are also found in the Roman world: for example, a shrine at Lavinium in Lazio was dedicated to Aeneas under the title Iuppiter Indiges ( Jupiter in-the-earth ).

The father of this Piso is probably the L. Calpurnius who dedicated a shrine to Feronia at Lucus Feroniae near Capena.

According to tradition his cult was said to have been introduced by the Sabines and perhaps king Titus Tatius dedicated a small shrine.

There was possibly another shrine or altar ( ara ) dedicated to Semo Sancus on the Isle of the Tiber, near the temple of Iupiter Iurarius.

Pope Gelasius I ( 492-496 ) mentions a shrine dedicated to him ( Jaffé, " Reg.

Pliny went on to note that Apelles ' painting of Pankaspe as Venus was later " dedicated by Augustus in the shrine of his father Caesar.

From its proportions, it does not seem to be major shrine of the goddess, but is currently the only building dedicated to her discovered in the city's ruins.

Inscriptions show that a shrine or altar was dedicated to her at this site by the 13th dynasty Pharaoh Sobekhotep III.