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Definition of Caryatic
1. a. Of or pertaining to a caryatid.
Definition of Caryatic
1. resembling a caryatid [adj] - See also: caryatid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caryatic
Literary usage of Caryatic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"A caryatic order is a caryatid with the entablature it supports. CARYATID (pi.
Caryatids or Caryatides). A sculptured female figure used as a supporting ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The Caryatides, or caryatic Order (Plato XII.) Besides the three species of
columnar arrangement enumerated above, the Greeks employed another in which ..."
3. A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture by William Chambers, Joseph Gwilt (1825)
"... M. Le Roy's remarks on these figures, 246, 247 ; this Greek specimen of the
caryatic order far surpassed by Jean Gougeon in his figures at the Louvre, ..."
4. Arts, Antiquities, and Chronology of Ancient Egypt: From Observations in 1839 by George Henry Wathen (1843)
"caryatic statues have the attitude and emblems of Osiris. This formal character
may be traced back to the origin of the art. Egyptian statuary sprang out of ..."
5. Cyclopedia of Architecture: Historical, Descriptive, Typographical by Robert Stuart (1854)
"The ancients, says Blondel, made frequent use of caryatic and Persian figures,
and delighted in diversifying them in a ..."
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