caryatid

Seventeen pedimental statues, including a caryatid and a column from the Erechtheion are also in the British Museum.
Outre une caryatide et une colonne de l'Erechteion, 17 statues des frontons du Parthénon se trouvent aussi au British Museum.
The use of the caryatid, always unnatural, is here rather successful on the whole, for the beholder derives no sensation that the maidens are restive under the weight imposed on them.
L'utilisation du caryatid, toujours artificielle, est ici plutôt réussie dans l'ensemble, parce que le spectateur ne dérive aucune sensation que les demoiselles sont rétives sous le poids imposé à eux.
An atlant, unlike a caryatid, always represents a male figure.
Un atlante, contrairement à une cariatide, représente toujours une figure masculine.
The central part of the complex has some outstanding caryatid figures that seem to support the imposing portico at the base of the cupola.
Au centre du complexe se détachent les figures des cariatides qui semblent presque soutenir l'important portique de la base de la coupole.
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