Caryatides
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CARYATIDES (Latinized from the Greek; the plural of Caryatis, i.e. a woman of Caryae in Laconia), in architecture, the term given to the draped female figures used for piers or supports, ...
Caryatid
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Architecture
A human figure, usually female, functioning as a pier, column or pilaster supporting an entablature ...
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Caryatid
This Greek column design is taken from the Erectheum in Athens (450 B.C.). The women of Carya refused to be taken as slaves by the advancing Greeks. For this they were immortalised in the columns that support the porch.
Caryatid - The human figure used as a sculptural column as part of a classical composition, often flanking a doorway, or as a decorative detail within an interior around a fireplace.
Caryatid - A sculptured female figure used as a column to support an entablature or other similar member, as on the Erechtheum.
Casino - An ornamental pavilion or small house, usually in the grounds of a larger house.
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Caryatid
A sculpted female figure used as a support in place of a column or pier. Image courtesy of Heather Russell ...
caryatid: female figure supporting a capital or entablature.
catenary curve: the curve formed by a chain or rope hanging from two points not in the same vertical line.
cavetto: concave moulding about a quarter-circle in section ...
CARYATID
Whole female figure supporting an entablature or other similar member.
Termini Caryatids: female busts or demi-figures or three-quarter figures supporting an entablature or other similar member and placed at the top of termini pilasters.
Caryatid
a supporting column in post-andlintel construction carved to represent a human or animal figure.
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Caryatid / Atlantes
- a sculptured female figure used as a column, the male equivalent is "Atlantes" (plural of Atlas who carried the world on his shoulders).
This Caryatid porch from ancient Athens, Greece has Ionic dentils.
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Caryatid - Supportive column carved in the shape of a female figure.
Casino - A building with public dance halls, gambling tables.
Castle - Fortified house or fortress.
Caryatids
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Female figures supporting an entablature; their male counterparts are Atlantes.CasemateVaulted chamber, with embrasures (splayed openings) for defence, within a castle wall or projecting from it.
Atlas. Male version of a caryatide, a sculpted figure used instead of a column to support an entablature. Also called telamon.
Attic. Decorative architectural element situated above the cornice of a building and concealing the roof from view.
It can include statues, keystones, gargoyles, pediments, caryatids and atlantes, figures or designs on spandrels and tympana, cornices, brackets, columns and capitals, frieze panels and decorative bricks.
 See also: Architecture, Entablature, Roman, Cornice, Greek
  
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