Thread: Buildings with caryatids & atlantes (sculpted human architectural features)
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Old Posted Aug 6, 2011, 9:53 PM
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An architectural adage says that every classical column is an anthropomorphic metaphor, possessing a foot, body and capital (literally a "head").
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