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==Etymology==
Middle French piedestal, from Old Italian piedestallo, from pie di stallo foot of a stall
*Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Century 1563]
==Definitions==
*1 a : the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassic column — see column illustration
:b : the base of an upright structure
*2 : base, foundation
*3 : a position of esteem
==Description==
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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan%27s_Column Trajan] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoninus_Pius Antoninus], or as a podium to the columns employed decoratively in the Roman triumphal arches.
The architects of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balustrade balustrade] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_(architecture) arcade]. They also would seem to have considered that the height of the pedestal should correspond in its [[proportion]] with that of the column or pilaster it supported; thus in the church of Saint John Lateran, where the applied order is of considerable [[dimensions]], the pedestal is 13 feet (4.0 m) high instead of the ordinary height of 3 to 5 feet (1.5 m).
In the imperial China, a stone tortoise called bixi was traditionally used as the pedestal for important stele, especially those associated with emperors.[1] According to the 1396 version of the regulations issued by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_Dynasty Ming Dynasty] founder, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongwu_Emperor Hongwu Emperor], the highest [[nobility]] (those of the gong and hou ranks) and the officials of the top 3 ranks were eligible for bixi-based funerary tablets, while lower-level mandarins' steles were to stand on simple rectangular pedestals.[2]
==Use in Popular Culture==
When a [[person]] overly [[Idol|idealizes]] someone (or something), it is often referred to as "putting one on a pedestal".
==Notes==
# Stele on the Back of Stone Tortoise (an overview of the Bixi tradition)
# de Groot, Jan Jakob Maria (1892), The Religious System of China, II, Brill Archive, pp. 451-452, http://www.archive.org/stream/religioussystem01groogoog#page/n105/mode/1up .
[[Category: Sculpture]]
==Etymology==
Middle French piedestal, from Old Italian piedestallo, from pie di stallo foot of a stall
*Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Century 1563]
==Definitions==
*1 a : the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassic column — see column illustration
:b : the base of an upright structure
*2 : base, foundation
*3 : a position of esteem
==Description==
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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan%27s_Column Trajan] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoninus_Pius Antoninus], or as a podium to the columns employed decoratively in the Roman triumphal arches.
The architects of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balustrade balustrade] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_(architecture) arcade]. They also would seem to have considered that the height of the pedestal should correspond in its [[proportion]] with that of the column or pilaster it supported; thus in the church of Saint John Lateran, where the applied order is of considerable [[dimensions]], the pedestal is 13 feet (4.0 m) high instead of the ordinary height of 3 to 5 feet (1.5 m).
In the imperial China, a stone tortoise called bixi was traditionally used as the pedestal for important stele, especially those associated with emperors.[1] According to the 1396 version of the regulations issued by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_Dynasty Ming Dynasty] founder, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongwu_Emperor Hongwu Emperor], the highest [[nobility]] (those of the gong and hou ranks) and the officials of the top 3 ranks were eligible for bixi-based funerary tablets, while lower-level mandarins' steles were to stand on simple rectangular pedestals.[2]
==Use in Popular Culture==
When a [[person]] overly [[Idol|idealizes]] someone (or something), it is often referred to as "putting one on a pedestal".
==Notes==
# Stele on the Back of Stone Tortoise (an overview of the Bixi tradition)
# de Groot, Jan Jakob Maria (1892), The Religious System of China, II, Brill Archive, pp. 451-452, http://www.archive.org/stream/religioussystem01groogoog#page/n105/mode/1up .
[[Category: Sculpture]]
