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.

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.

The pediment over the south portico is a complete break from the convention.

The general form this architecture took was of severely symmetrical, often rectangular houses, with a pediment over the central bays.

In Ancient Rome, the Renaissance, and later architectural revivals, the pediment was used as a non-structural element over windows, doors and aedicules.

This was later taken up in the coat of arms of Polish aristocratic families connected with the Hunyadis, and also led to Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus ' triumph over the Aquitanians ( 27BC ) being commemorated in the pediment of the Krasiński Palace in Warsaw.

The Municipal Palace still faces the main plaza, marked by the classic-style pediment over the main entrance.

The pediment representing the fight between the asura brothers Sunda and Upasunda over the apsaras Tilottamā is located in the Musée Guimet.

At the apex of the pediment stands a statue of the Virgin Mary who presides over the church which was erected in her honour.

Image: Rotonda broken pediment. jpg | Open pediment over doorway

A combination of Mannerist and Baroque styles, has a central body with floor level arcades, over a colonnade gallery surmounted by a triangular pediment decorated in stucco.

The central third was topped by a large pediment and contained the main door, which also had a pediment over it.

The roof-line is hidden by a balustrade, broken by an unsupported pediment over the central bay.

The pediment over the front entrance discloses a fine piece of allegorical sculpture.

The Langworthy wing was constructed over three storey and “ was built of brick with stone dressing with a glass and Welch-slate roof, with a pediment gable .” In the present time it serves as the public entrance.

The theatre includes a triga ( a three-horse quadriga ) and 10 exterior allegorical sculptures by Bohuslav Schnirch, 10 more exterior pieces by Antonín Wagner, the stone pieces by Max Verich and an interior sculpted pediment group over the proscenium arch by Schnirch.

The arms of the 2nd baron were added to the previously blank pediment, and in 1915 a small porch was built over the new entrance.

A large three-storey house, the bottom storey in stone, the upper storeys in brick, with a single-storey porch, over which is a Venetian window and a pediment

The roof carries over the end walls where the gable is a triangular pediment carrying a cornice across the eaves line.

A carving of St. Paul preaching before King Agrippa II was intended to be placed in the pediment over the entrance, but was never executed.

The argument against ornament peaked in 1959 over discussions of the Seagram Building, where Mies van der Rohe installed a series of structurally unnecessary vertical I-beams on the outside of the building, and by 1984, when Philip Johnson produced his AT & T Building in Manhattan with an ornamental pink granite neo-Georgian pediment, the argument was effectively over.

The Calydonian Hunt was the theme of the temple's main pediment.

The style adopted for this part of the museum was Italian Renaissance, much use was made of terracotta, brick and mosaic, this north façade was intended as the main entrance to the museum with its bronze doors designed by James Gamble & Reuben Townroe having six panels depicting: Humphry Davy ( chemistry ); Isaac Newton ( astronomy ); James Watt ( mechanics ); Bramante ( architecture ); Michelangelo ( sculpture ); Titian ( painting ); thus representing the range of the museums collections, Godfrey Sykes also designed the terracotta embellishments and the mosaic in the pediment of the North Façade commemorating the Great Exhibition the profits from which helped to fund the museum, this is flanked by terracotta statue groups by Percival Ball.

The windows on the main floor are each surrounded by smaller pilasters beneath a triangular pediment formed by keel moulding geisons, while the second level windows are each simply framed by astragal moulding broken at the top by a keystone.

Of the six, Rudulph Evans was chosen as the main sculptor and Adolph A. Weinman was chosen to sculpt the pediment relief situated above the entrance.

The main entrance is flanked by two pilasters and topped with a pediment with reliefs made of shells.

The Temple of Athena Alea burned in 394 BC and was magnificently rebuilt, to designs by Scopas of Paros, with reliefs of the Calydonian boar hunt in the main pediment.

The main facade on Zaragoza Street has an enormous main door with posts, framed by Ionic pilasters, which reach to the upper floor, and toped by a pediment and a cornice.

The main door in the centre of the central block has Ionic columns with a broken pediment containing a cartouche of the arms of Liverpool.

The result was a large unostentatious red brick palladian mansion, on two principal floors, the hipped roof hidden by a brick pediment, the main facade seven bays long had at its centre a three bayed projection, the only ornament was dressed stone double strapping indicating the ground and first floor division.

The main altar --" The Silver Altar "-- is a wooden triptych with an ebony veneer with sculptured reliefs in silver in ascending order of the Last Supper on the predella ; a large depiction of the Crucifixion of Christ between silver statues of Moses and John the Baptist in niches with small silver columns on either side ; of the Burial of Christ ( between silver statues of the evangelists Matthew and Mark ; of Christ's Harrowing of Hell ( between statues of the evangelists John and Luke ; and on the pediment at top of the triptych, a silver statue of the Risen Christ between two reclining soldiers.

The Venetian window at the east may show the growing influence of the revival of Palladian Architecture, or it may be a rhyme with the arched pediment of the entrance portico, repeated in the wide main stage of the tower.

The building's main facade had a central hexastyle Greek Ionic portico with pediment, and two tetra style porticoes without pediments at each end.

Between the pediment and the cornice a thick corded moulding is carried round the main building.

Like many buildings designed for Indian school campuses, the main building was a simple three-story structure with a hipped roof and a small triangular pediment above the center entrance.

Its entrance gate features four Doric columns with rusticated banding, a pediment containing a huge carving of the family coat of arms, two life-size stags in embellished with real antlers, and a clock tower topped by a cupola.

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.

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.

The entrance facade has a portico with six Corinthian columns, supporting a pediment with a tympanum sculpture by Sir Robert Taylor, in the centre of which is a symbolic figure of the City of London trampling on her enemies.

A small portico juts out from the center of the building and is topped by a pediment, two high arched windows frame the entrance.

It contains a carved hornbeam memorial tablet to Willingale and its north entrance includes a terracotta pediment illustrating loppers at work in the forest.

Its two-story facade, reminiscent of a Roman temple, is punctuated by an entrance framed with Corinthian columns topped by a large triangular pediment.

Image: Liverpool Bluecoat door pediment 2. jpg | Sculpted entrance

The relief on the pediment above the entrance with the cardinal virtues and the figure of the patron on its apex point to the motivation of the donation.

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

The cella was surrounded by pillars and the entrance was crowned with a pediment.

The sculptured pediment above the portico and entrance, known as the tympanum, was carved by noted Brisbane sculptor Daphne Mayo in the early 1930s.

The stone pediment etched with the words " TERRE HAUTE HOUSE " from the Seventh Street side of the old hotel will be used over the entrance to the new six-story structure, and some other items may also be utilized.