Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

PEDESTAL (Fr. piedestal, Ital. piedes...

Online Encyclopedia

Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 37 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

» Make a correction to this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.

Encyclopedia Home :: PAS-PER

Spread the word:

del.icio.us it!

See also:

PEDESTAL (Fr. piedestal, Ital. piedestallo, foot of a stall)

PEDESTAL (Fr. piedestal, Ital. piedestallo, See also:
FOOT
foot of a See also:
STALL (0. Eng. steall, stael, cf. Du. stal, Ger. and Swed. Stall, a common Teutonic word for a place, station, place for standing in; the root is the Indo-European std–, to stand, seen also in Latin stabulum, Greek vraO bs, and in stallion, an entire hors
stall) , a See also:

TERM

term generally applied to a support, square, octagonal or circular on See also:

plan, provided to carry a statue or a See also:

vase. Although in See also:

SYRIA

Syria, See also:

ASIA

Asia See also:

Minor and See also:

TUNISIA (Regency of Tunis)

Tunisia the See also:

Romans occasionally raised the columns of their temples or See also:

PROPYLAEA (Ilp6sruXov, 1pol- mala)

propylaea on square pedestals, in See also:

Rome itself they were employed only to give greater importance to isolated columns, such as those of See also:

TRAJAN [MARCUS ULPIUS TRAJANUS] (A. D. 53-117)

Trajan and See also:

ANTONINUS, SAINT ANTONIO PIEROZZI

Antoninus, or as a See also:

PODIUM (Gr. lr66tov, diminutive of ?roils, foot)

podium to the columns employed decoratively in the See also:

ROMAN

Roman triumphal See also:

ARCHES, COURT OF

arches. The architects of the See also:

ITALIAN

Italian revival, however, conceived the See also:

IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea that no See also:

order was See also:

COMPLETE

complete without a pedestal, and as the orders were by them employed to See also:

DIVIDE

divide up and decorate a See also:

BUILDING

building in several storeys, the See also:

CORNICE (Fr. corniche, Ital. cornice)

cornice of the pedestal was carried through and formed the sills of their windows, or, in open arcades, See also:

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round a See also:

court, the See also:

BALUSTRADE

balustrade of the See also:

ARCADE

arcade. They also would seem to have considered that the height of the pedestal should correspond in its proportion with that of the See also:

COLUMN (Lat. columna)

column of See also:

PILASTER (Fr. pilastre, med. Lat. pilastrum, from pila, a pillar)

pilaster it supported; thus in the See also:

church of St See also:

John Lateran, where the applied order is of considerable dimensions, the pedestal is 13 ft. high instead of the See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary height of 3 to 5 ft.

End of Article: PEDESTAL (Fr. piedestal, Ital. piedestallo, foot of a stall)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.

» Add information or comments to this article.

Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.

Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
PEDERSEN, CHRISTIERN (c. 1480-1554)

[next]
PEDICULOSIS, or PHT11IRIASIS