What is "pedimental"

Usage examples of "pedimental".

It is quite as certain, in spite of the fragmentary condition of the remains, that they were pedimental compositions and the earliest of the kind yet known.

It would surely be strange if the pedimental group, framed in this way by vase designs, were in no way influenced by them.

The inference seems certain that the pedimental decoration, if present at all, was either of wood or of terracotta, or was merely painted on a smooth surface.

It is held that, if artists had become accustomed to carving pedimental groups in wood, the first examples that we have in stone would not show so great inability to deal with the conditions of pedimental composition.

It was simply that only figures in the round can satisfy the requirements of a pedimental composition.

So soon as this was discovered and so soon as the art of sculpture found itself able to supply the want, a new period in pedimental decoration began.

For there still exists a continuous series of pedimental groups, first in low relief then in high relief, and finally standing altogether free from the background, and becoming sculpture in the round.

This process of change was especially rapid in pedimental groups, for the reason stated above.

If then there are reasons for finding the origin of pedimental decoration in a plane or low-relief composition of terracotta, made more effective both by a framing of like material and technic, and by the acroteria at either extremity and above, then the process of development which leads at length to the pediments at Aegina and the Parthenon becomes at once easy and natural.

On the other hand, if the potter had copied the pedimental group the copy could perfectly well have been an exact one.

I turned and looked at the windows, the facade, the pompous white pedimental figures.