Pedestals (396)
The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the part on which an upright piece of work stands.
Interesting Information on Pedestals
Although in Syria, Asia Minor and Tunisia the Romans occasionally raised the columns of their temples or propylaea on square pedestals, in Rome itself they were employed only to give greater importance to isolated columns, such as those of Trajan and Antoninus, or as a podium to the columns employed decoratively in the Roman triumphal arches.
The architects of the Italian revival, however, conceived the idea that no order was complete without a pedestal, and as the orders were by them employed to divide up and decorate a building in several stories, the cornice of the pedestal was carried through and formed the sills of their windows, or, in open arcades, round a court, the balustrade of the arcade.
An elevated pedestal or plinth which bears a statue and which is raised from the substructure supporting it (typically roofs or corniches) is sometimes called an acropodium. The term is from the Greek akros or topmost + podos or foot.
Other Languages
French:piédestal
Italian:piedistallo
Japanese:台
Chinese (Traditional):柱腳，支座，基架
German:der Sockel
Russian:пьедестал, цоколь
