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Recent Examples of caryatid
Best of all are the caryatids of the St. Pancras New Church, four toga-wearing terra-cotta ladies who bear part of the roof, austerely holding the gaze of passengers on the top level of the No. 30 bus.
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Francesca Carington, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
In a quiet section of Paris, in the 13th Arrondissement, a large building with recessed columns, Romanesque windows, and caryatids preserves an ancient art.
—Peter Saenger, airmail.news, 28 Dec. 2024
The Greek key patterns inscribed on the floors of tenement bathrooms are repurposed as part of an architectural frieze, and Woodman’s friends—Rankin among them—are transformed into towering caryatids.
—Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2024
Sometimes a caryatid has been compared to the unseen slave who carried society’s burdens.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
Its tiered, warm bronze facade, whose color shifts with the sun, riffs on Yoruba caryatids and ironwork designs by a former South Carolina slave, playing off a phalanx of white marble mausoleums lining the National Mall.
—Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
This living room, with its heavy red curtains and giant caryatids framing the chimney, was one of several that was ultimately scrapped.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
The caryatid, which first came about in ancient Greece, is a carving of a standing woman used as a column to support an architectural structure.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 10 Dec. 2019
Her inaugural works for the Met’s façade—a set of four female bronze caryatids, larger than life and stylized in the tradition of high-ranking African women—challenge the institution’s own history of Eurocentrism and patriarchy.
—Time Staff, Time, 20 Dec. 2019
Francesca Carington, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
In a quiet section of Paris, in the 13th Arrondissement, a large building with recessed columns, Romanesque windows, and caryatids preserves an ancient art.
—Peter Saenger, airmail.news, 28 Dec. 2024
The Greek key patterns inscribed on the floors of tenement bathrooms are repurposed as part of an architectural frieze, and Woodman’s friends—Rankin among them—are transformed into towering caryatids.
—Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2024
Sometimes a caryatid has been compared to the unseen slave who carried society’s burdens.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
Its tiered, warm bronze facade, whose color shifts with the sun, riffs on Yoruba caryatids and ironwork designs by a former South Carolina slave, playing off a phalanx of white marble mausoleums lining the National Mall.
—Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
This living room, with its heavy red curtains and giant caryatids framing the chimney, was one of several that was ultimately scrapped.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
The caryatid, which first came about in ancient Greece, is a carving of a standing woman used as a column to support an architectural structure.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 10 Dec. 2019
Her inaugural works for the Met’s façade—a set of four female bronze caryatids, larger than life and stylized in the tradition of high-ranking African women—challenge the institution’s own history of Eurocentrism and patriarchy.
—Time Staff, Time, 20 Dec. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caryatid
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This was also the week that Los Angeles Opera took its annual break from its grand pedestal at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and presented the West Coast premiere of another opera from Beth Morrison Projects at REDCAT.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Feb. 2025
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In the office, furnishings from Hobeika’s childhood home in Paris—like the vintage wood chinoiserie desk and the wood pedestal—received a second life.—
Kristen Flanagan,
Architectural Digest,
29 Jan. 2025
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The views and opinions expressed in this column are the author's and do not necessarily reflect those of USA TODAY.—
Johnny C. Taylor Jr.,
USA TODAY,
26 Feb. 2025
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Krista Kafer,
The Denver Post,
25 Feb. 2025
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By focusing on these 13 key pillars, India is weaving a future where tradition meets technology, and growth is inclusive and sustainable.—
Cassell Ferere,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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Its distinctive shape, featuring dramatic overhanging concrete floors supported by thick pillars, gives it a futuristic appearance.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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Designed to evoke the Pantheon, the rotunda’s curved sandstone walls are divided by fluted Doric pilasters with wreaths of olive branches carved in the frieze above.—
Riley Beggin,
USA TODAY,
20 Jan. 2025
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Though more stately in its setting of classical pilasters and marble floors, the lobby El Bar del Majestic is pretty hopping too with live piano music.—
John Oseid,
Forbes,
17 Dec. 2024
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“Caryatid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caryatid. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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