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At the corners of the cube four stumpy pilasters rose to a quadrant of richly curlicued Corinthian capitals.
The piers and pilasters carry a deep entablature which was enriched with triglyphs and mutules.
The stadium's design, which suggests an ornate airline hangar, is punctuated with arches balconies, soffits, and pilasters.
New casings around the doors and lower windows, plus large pilasters between the French doors, help define and anchor the living room.
This is Penn Station's dining room as seen from below after the plaster coffers and pilasters were partially removed.
The principal doorways of both buildings are framed by pilasters and display graceful semicircular fanlights crowned with open pediments.
The twelve-panel front door is surmounted with a transom window and framed by fluted pilasters supporting an open pediment.
The company can also supply corbels, brackets, pilasters, columns and fireplaces.
The new space was panelled throughout, and fluted Corinthian columns and pilasters were added.
The shallow dome floats over the place, its hovering quality enhanced by the sometimes invisible mirror-glazed pilasters that prop its corners.
A presumably Jesuit ruin, all stone dentil cornices, capitals, pilasters and broken walls.
The original cornice jutted out noticeably much as it does above the pilasters on the fireplace wall.
The typical prefabricated full-surround mantel frames the firebox opening with panels, pilasters, or columns and is topped with a shelf.
The corners of the facades of both the main block and the pavilion are adorned with monumental paired pilasters with Ionic capitals.
The central four bays are separated by Ionic pilasters and decorated with three sculptural roundels.
Fluted Corinthian pilasters that rise from the chair rail and terminate at Alexis Joseph Mazerolle's frieze delineate the walls of the room.
Directly above, a massive denticulated cornice formed the base for a circle of Corinthian pilasters.
Postmodern designs have hints of pilasters, friezes and capitals, but only in lego-like abbreviation.
In 1537 it was ceded to Angelo Massimi, who commissioned Perino del Vaga to paint frescoes on each of the lateral walls and on the pilasters on either side of the entrance.
A coin of Augustus shows what is presumably a square superstructure, with arches on the two faces in view, pilasters or columns, and an entablature but no roof.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The relief is bounded by two pilasters surmounted by a pediment, with acroteria.
The pilasters and the arcaded ends are also slightly decorated with foliage.
They have large pilasters at the angles, and their coffered wagon vaulting, adorned with geometrical patterns, is very striking.
There are remains of eight roof pilasters, a central fireplace, a deflector, and a ventilator shaft in the kiva.
The sides of the library are adorned by scagliola pilasters and arched recesses, which contain the books.
Perhaps the only fault of the detail is that the Doric pilasters and columns are too tall.
Terminations similar to pilasters upon the ends of the lateral walls of the cella, in pronaos and epinaos.
The six chapels are also cut in the wall and ornamented by two columns and two pilasters.
On the landing dainty little fluted pilasters support the surbase, their fine scale lending much grace and refinement.
The walls are decorated with unfluted pilasters, with capitals scarcely conformable to any one order of architecture.
Costello, who sat on a little portable stool at the base of one of the great pilasters.
The predella is divided by painted pilasters into three parts.
It was a large square wooden structure, with tongued and grooved walls painted pale green and white, a Corinthian portico, and fluted pilasters between the windows.
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