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On many ornate facades in the city center, full-length windows topped with curlicued pediments are boarded over.

“My inspiration comes from temple pediments, from images on vases, because there is nothing that has been preserved — no movement, no dance — from antiquity,” she said.

Her casket will be carried up the steps in front of the court, passing under the iconic words engraved on the pediment, “Equal Justice Under Law,” and placed in the court’s Great Hall.

Free-standing statues filled the triangular pediments that stood above the marble columns on the building’s short sides.

The collection includes 15 sculpted relief panels and figures of gods and heroes from the temple's pediments.