Although the architect, Stepan Liphart, speaks of Leo von Klenze’s New Hermitage, personally, my first association was the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts designed by Roman Klein: there are also ...

Gabled lid with acroteria and abstract designs in the pediment. The lid is of the ash chest 59.148.328a in the Engravings volume but not so in the Monumenta Mattheiana It was perhaps made in the 18th ...

It had great roof ornaments, acroteria, in the form of victory figures, Nikai, alighting as if descending from heaven. And the great statue of Athena Parthenos inside the Parthenon, made of gold ...

Caryatids were commonly found in the Ionic order and were named after the city of Caryae. Acroteria are decorative elements placed on the corners of pediments, as well as on the corners of roofs.

Sarcophagus corner from a lid now in five pieces, consisting of the front panel, two pediments ( 59.148.307.1 and 59.148.307.4 ) and two acroteria masks ( 59.248.307.2 and 59.148.307.3 ) The long ...

The work features a stepped pediment with Palmette acroteria at corners. The pediment is surmounted by an urn. There are four bronze upright panels with double columns of names for the First World War ...

Its composition follows the classical St. Petersburg style, with a palace-like courtyard. The decor is on the brink of Egyptian lotuses, neo-Greek acroteria, and classic 1930s “gears”; the recessed ...

It was later moved to its present position in St Andrew's chapel. The white marble tablet with decoration of acroteria on a black marble ground is by sculptor Sir Richard Westmacott. The inscription ...

MATERIALS: stucco with stucco detail including rusticated quoins to principal outer elevations, otherwise local rubble with granite dressings; dry slate mostly hipped roofs, the gables coped and with ...

The pedestals supporting the base of the large urns are called acroteria. Chastely draped cherubs look down from above on both the Nostrand Avenue and Sterling Place sides, sitting amidst acanthus ...