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The head of each rests on a helmet, and the lady wears the "pedimental" headdress of Tudor fashion.— The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City ; Its Medieval Remains
This process of change was especially rapid in pedimental groups, for the reason stated above.— The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
But if we assume that the pedimental group could have originated in this way, we must be prepared to explain the course of its development up to the pediments of Aegina and the— The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
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.— The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
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.— The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
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