caryatid

The single square column features crouching figures in the capital who seem to be holding up the arch, a playful evocation of the classical figure of the caryatid or herm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

Sometimes a caryatid has been compared to the unseen slave who carried society’s burdens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

And there's Salma Hayek in her clinking lavender gown, gliding through like a Technicolor caryatid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2018

You may think that David Cameron's well-heeled colleagues would give him a marble caryatid bought from the Frieze Masters art fair for his birthday.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2012

“A caryatid wouldn’t be strong enough for Dad.”

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

Four huge totem poles, or ponderous carvings, supported the heavy beams of the roof in the manner of caryatides.

From Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska by Charles Warren Stoddard

The pannels were beautifully painted, and the arched top or tilt supported by gilded caryatides at the four corners.

From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Henry William Herbert

Louis xiv. had gold-embroidered caryatides fifteen feet high in his apartment. 

From A Critic in Pall Mall Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies by Oscar Wilde

Art blended so cunningly with Nature one might almost mistake marble Venus for live goddess or flesh-and-blood naiads of the lake for carved caryatides.

From Orphans of the Storm by Henry MacMahon

These pulpits are supported by caryatides representing the Evangelists and four doctors of the Church.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins

Flanking the Hunt likeness, the delayed but imposing 6-foot-3-inch draped caryatids represent both “Architecture” and “Painting and Sculpture.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

In it, she and Cardi B dress in Grecian goddess-inspired dresses, dance in front of classically inspired statuary, wear headdresses that evoke caryatids and transform into Grecian vases.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2021

Their eccentric profile, isolated against white, forms a kind of muscular torso, not unlike Matisse’s 1909 “Bather,” striding through water, or one of Modigliani’s caryatids.

From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2020

He sat in a ostentatious Greek-style hall bedecked with four caryatids, the draped female figures used in columns — a style first seen in Delphi 2 ½ millennia ago.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2019

Small kids were perched on tabletops because there weren't enough chairs, and the Epiphany sixth graders stood like caryatids leaning against three of the four walls of the room.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg