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Recent Examples of caryatid
The site includes a central area with a cross vault and large caryatids with baskets, a large niche with a rocky backdrop and fountain, and three arms.
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Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 16 Apr. 2025
Best of all are the caryatids of the St. Pancras New Church, four toga-wearing terra-cotta ladies who bear part of the roof, austerely holding the gaze of passengers on the top level of the No. 30 bus.
—Francesca Carington, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
In a quiet section of Paris, in the 13th Arrondissement, a large building with recessed columns, Romanesque windows, and caryatids preserves an ancient art.
—Peter Saenger, airmail.news, 28 Dec. 2024
The Greek key patterns inscribed on the floors of tenement bathrooms are repurposed as part of an architectural frieze, and Woodman’s friends—Rankin among them—are transformed into towering caryatids.
—Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2024
Sometimes a caryatid has been compared to the unseen slave who carried society’s burdens.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
Its tiered, warm bronze facade, whose color shifts with the sun, riffs on Yoruba caryatids and ironwork designs by a former South Carolina slave, playing off a phalanx of white marble mausoleums lining the National Mall.
—Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
This living room, with its heavy red curtains and giant caryatids framing the chimney, was one of several that was ultimately scrapped.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
Her inaugural works for the Met’s façade—a set of four female bronze caryatids, larger than life and stylized in the tradition of high-ranking African women—challenge the institution’s own history of Eurocentrism and patriarchy.
—Time Staff, Time, 20 Dec. 2019
Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 16 Apr. 2025
Best of all are the caryatids of the St. Pancras New Church, four toga-wearing terra-cotta ladies who bear part of the roof, austerely holding the gaze of passengers on the top level of the No. 30 bus.
—Francesca Carington, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
In a quiet section of Paris, in the 13th Arrondissement, a large building with recessed columns, Romanesque windows, and caryatids preserves an ancient art.
—Peter Saenger, airmail.news, 28 Dec. 2024
The Greek key patterns inscribed on the floors of tenement bathrooms are repurposed as part of an architectural frieze, and Woodman’s friends—Rankin among them—are transformed into towering caryatids.
—Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2024
Sometimes a caryatid has been compared to the unseen slave who carried society’s burdens.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
Its tiered, warm bronze facade, whose color shifts with the sun, riffs on Yoruba caryatids and ironwork designs by a former South Carolina slave, playing off a phalanx of white marble mausoleums lining the National Mall.
—Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
This living room, with its heavy red curtains and giant caryatids framing the chimney, was one of several that was ultimately scrapped.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
Her inaugural works for the Met’s façade—a set of four female bronze caryatids, larger than life and stylized in the tradition of high-ranking African women—challenge the institution’s own history of Eurocentrism and patriarchy.
—Time Staff, Time, 20 Dec. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caryatid
Noun
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Too often, being happily single is demonized while being romantically involved is put on a pedestal.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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Humans tend to put our own intelligence on a pedestal.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Wired News,
11 May 2025
Noun
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Social media may help create a lasting nickname that is more on the money than those that were coined by political foes, or from the editorial column of any paper of record.—
Peter Suciu,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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Broken flower stems and shorn columns symbolize early death.—
Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
Noun
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While education and health have long been pillars of their work, sustainability is a newer, but increasingly vital, focus for the Foundation.—
Sindiswa Mabunda,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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Durability and dominance are the twin pillars of pitching greatness.—
Tyler Kepner,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
Noun
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The front door, defined by wide pilasters and sidelights topped by a crosshead with transom windows beckons visitors to step into an impressive and welcoming entry hall.—
James Alexander,
Hartford Courant,
1 June 2025
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What to look for: Large porch and classical corner pilasters.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 May 2025
Cite this Entry
“Caryatid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caryatid. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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