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.

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

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.

A pediment on one of the galleries shows the lion-man Narasiṃha clawing the demon Hiraṇyakaśipu.

* 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.

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.

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 house has no actual front door, as both the riverside and courtyard side entrances contain a two story portico with Doric columns supporting a pediment.

It was given a new façade, a triangular corniced pediment — the height of modernity at the time — and another story was added.

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

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.

* 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 AT & T Building in Manhattan, now the Sony Building, was completed in 1984 and was immediately controversial for its neo-Georgian pediment ( Chippendale top ).

The door's architrave was adorned with a marble plaque at the centre and topped by a broken rounded pediment.

Above the whole was a triangular pediment.

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.

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 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 positioning of the bust was an innovative new design in the decoration of a pediment.

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

It was enlarged in 1905, and is in the Neoclassical style style, with a corbelled parapet and pilasters rising to a centre pediment.

The pediment was also not faithfully restored, but this is not the fault of the restorers, since in the 19th century it had long been gone and its original appearance was unknown.

The tympanum, or triangular area within the pediment, was often decorated with sculptures and reliefs demonstrating scenes of Greek and Roman mythology or allegorical figures.

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

A new competition was set up in 1828-29, to determine the design for sculptures for the pediment, a Last Judgment, in which Mary Magdalene knelt to intercede for the Damned ; the winner was Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire.

Architecturally earlier than the Hekatompedon of Athens the Delphi temple has a probable date of c. 520, thus the kouroi of its pediment which betray the swelling trapezium and semicircular lower boundary of the abdomen can be associated with later examples of the group.

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.

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.

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

The city hall ( hôtel de ville ), erected in the 17th century and enlarged in the 19th, features a pediment with an equestrian statue of Louis XIII ( reigned 1610 to 1643 ).

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 scene appears to have filled the space with figures carefully arranged to fit the slope and shape available, as with earlier east pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympus.

The palmate acroteria have been replaced here with small figures, the eastern pediment being surmounted by a winged Nike, poised against the wind.

On the north front of Les Invalides ( illustration, right ) Hardouin-Mansart's chapel dome is large enough to dominate the long façade, yet harmonizes with Bruant's door under an arched pediment.

The west front has nine wide bays with a central pediment supported by four columns and pilasters to the other bays.

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.

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

* The Winter Theater ( 1934 – 1937 ) is another rigorously Neoclassical edifice, surrounded by 88 Corinthian columns, with a pediment bearing the statues of Terpsichore, Melpomene and Thalia, all three cast by Vera Mukhina.

The courthouse for this sparsely populated remote county is remarkable in its formality … These include the giant Doric columns with fillets and bases, a pediment forming a projecting portico, a modillioned cornice, and pedimented side dormers .” ( p. 481 )

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.