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See also:PEDESTAL (Fr. piedestal, Ital. piedestallo, See also:foot of a See also:stall)
, a See also:term generally applied to a support, square, octagonal or circular on See also:plan, provided to carry a statue or a See also:vase
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Although in See also:Syria, See also:Asia See also:Minor and See also:Tunisia the See also:Romans occasionally raised the columns of their temples or See also: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 and See also:Antoninus, or as a See also:podium to the columns employed decoratively in the See also:Roman triumphal See also:arches
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The architects of the See also:Italian revival, however, conceived the See also:idea that no See also:order was See also:complete without a See also:pedestal, and as the orders were by them employed to See also:divide up and decorate a See also:building in several storeys, the See also:cornice of the pedestal was carried through and formed the sills of their windows, or, in open arcades, See also:round a See also:court, the See also:balustrade of the See also:arcade
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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 of See also:pilaster it supported; thus in the See also: |
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