caryatids in English

noun
1
a stone carving of a draped female figure, used as a pillar to support the entablature of a Greek or Greek-style building.
We have much of the frieze of the treasury of the Siphnians of c. 525, as well as one of the caryatid figures supporting the porch; other buildings so decorated are extremely scrappily preserved.

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1. How to say Caryatids in English? Pronunciation of Caryatids with 1 audio pronunciation, 9 translations and more for Caryatids.

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3. Noun Caryatides, caryatids Architecture

4. Caryatids Hung individually or lining a corridor, these Caryatids are easily mounted indoors or out

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9. [From Latin Caryātides, Caryatids, from Greek Karuātides, priestesses of Artemis at Caryae, Caryatids, from Karuai, Caryae, a village of Laconia in southern Greece with a

10. Caryatids Hung individually or lining a corridor, these Caryatids are easily mounted indoors or out. Three- dimensional, ancient Greek or hand – stressed enough to look like antiques, our Caryatids are stunning and create the perfect home.

11. The explanation of how they came to be called Caryatids varies.

12. The Caryatids are statues of young women clad in peplos

13. The Caryatids’ origins were less poetic: According to one legend, Mr

14. 13 synonyms and near synonyms of Caryatids from the Merriam-Webster Thesaurus

15. The Caryatids were not real, three-dimensional people I could empathize with

16. The most famous Caryatids are from the Erechtheion on the Acropolis of Athens

17. On the Erechtheion's south porch, six Caryatids support the roof in place of columns

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19. Level was captivated by one of Modigliani's large caryatids in watercolour and wanted to buy it.

20. Erechtheion is known for the Caryatids; Karyatid means 'Karian girl' and forms a special form of Koreans

21. ‘Modigliani's early, remarkable images of Caryatids (female figures that serve as columns) are sometimes as strong as his later portraits.’ ‘The porch over the main entrance is supported by Caryatids, set in front of the asymmetrical facade as a direct historicist quotation.’

22. The Caryatids are amongst the most recognisable of the Pentelic marble sculptures that were placed on the Athenian Acropolis

23. Three- dimensional, ancient Greek or hand – stressed enough to look like antiques, our Caryatids are stunning and create the perfect home.

24. Caryatids of Erechtheion A Caryatid is a name given to a column in the form of a standing female figure

25. Latin caryatides, plural, from Greek karyatides priestesses of Artemis at Caryae, Caryatids, from Karyai Caryae in Laconia Learn More about caryatid Time Traveler for …

26. He and other Caryatids stand in the classical Indian tribhanga stance, with body bent at neck, waist, and knee to form a gentle S-curve; Fig

27. Caryatids, those sculpted female bodies that stand in for a supporting columns, have a glamorous architectural pedigree – stretching back at least three thousand or so years

28. Bruce Sterling, like the statues referred to in the title of “The Caryatids” (Del Rey, $25, 297 pages), has broken under the pressure of expectations – …

29. The Caryatids have become the temple’s signature feature, as they stand and seem to casually support the weight of the porch’s roof on their heads

30. Latin Caryatides, plural, from Greek karyatides priestesses of Artemis at Caryae, caryatids, from Karyai Caryae in Laconia Learn More about caryatid Time Traveler for …

31. Recent Examples on the Web This living room, with its heavy red curtains and giant Caryatids framing the chimney, was one of several that was ultimately scrapped

32. The Porch of the Caryatids is part of the Erechtheion, which is an ancient Greek temple on the Acropolis of Athens in Greece, which was dedicated to Athena and Poseidon

33. Caryatid (plural Caryatids or Caryatides) A sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head

34. Unlike true Caryatids, these figures were not actual architectural supports but decorative embellishments for the transitional zone between the square hall and the domed ceiling above it; Fig

35. The Caryatids of Amphipolis, although their status indicates that they have suffered any kind of hardship, implicitly justify those who want to believe that there is a possibility to find

36. Caryatids' blue skin is generally covered by an intricate, tattoo like pattern, and some are known to paint their faces (such as Lord Helmawr's) and wear bracelets, bangles, anklets and ear rings

37. On the north side, there is another large porch with six Ionic columns, and on the south, the famous "Porch of the Maidens", with six draped female figures (Caryatids) as supporting columns.

38. This caryatid is one of six elegant female figures who supported the roof of the south porch of the Erechtheion (figures who do the work of columns—carrying a roof—are called Caryatids)

39. Caryatids (or CARY for short) stood for “Chicks in Architecture Refuse to Yield to Atavistic Thinking in Design and Society,” and its members targeted the boy’s club atmosphere of the design trades with equal doses of candor and sarcastic humor.

40. The Caryatids wear the fishtail braid down the back, two or three corkscrew curls from behind the ear resting on their chests, plus braids that wrap around their head to create a transition from the head to the capital directly above

41. When we look at it as an architectural term, it is the name given to the carrier elements in the form of a woman statue, and the folds of the clothes they carry on are reminiscent of the grooves in the columns, and the Erechtheion Caryatids

42. Carved, draped, straight, standing female figure (cora), supporting on its head an astragal (enriched with bead-and-reel), ovolo (enriched with egg-and-dart), and square abacus, used as a substitute for a column, and supporting an entablature.The best-known example of the use of Caryatids in Greek Antiquity was the south porch of the Erechtheion, Athens (c.421