An architectural ornamental element, specifically found in Classical, Neoclassical and Baroque architecture, where it is called frontispiece and is richly filled with sculpture. In the construction of roofs, it takes the shape of the half-hipped roof (see: Roof – the Top Covering of a Building). The pediments usually consists of triangular gable (a portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches). Nevertheless, it can equally be segmental, broken, shaped, or scrolled (in the form of a volute), or it can constitute a cantilever above a window or door.

Featured image: Two windows with pediments of the house with number 10 on the General Eremia Grigorescu in Bucharest (Romania). Photo by Beautiful Buildings Pics (2019). CC BY-SA 4.0. Image cropped; colours intensified. Photo source: “Pediment” (2021). In: Wikipedia. The Free Encyclopedia.

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