balustrades

Examples of balustrades in the following topics:

• The Temple of Athena Nike

  • A parapet was added on the balustrade to protect visitors from falling down the steep hillside.

• Architecture in the Vijayanagar Empire

  • Palaces usually spanned multiple levels and had tall flights of stairs flanked on either side by balustrades carved with yali and elephants.

• Architecture of the Maya

  • At the spring and fall equinoxes, the setting sun casts an undulating, serpent-like shadow on the stairways forming bodies for the serpent heads carved at the base of the balustrades.

• Teotihuacan

  • Archaeological excavation of this temple's earlier-phase tableros and a stairway balustrade have revealed painted heads of the Feathered Serpent, the goggle-eyed Rain or Storm God, and reliefs of aquatic shells and snails.

• Architecture of the Han Dynasty

  • They often had a walled courtyard at the bottom, a balcony with balustrades and windows for every floor, and roof tiles capping and concealing the ceiling rafters.

• Norman Architecture

  • Around its top run balustrades formed of Gothic letters, which read as part of the Magnificat.

• Architecture of the Aztecs

  • Each stairway was defined by balustrades flanking the stairs terminating in menacing serpent heads at the base; these stairways were used only by the priests and sacrificial victims.

• The Acropolis

  • A parapet was added on the balustrade to protect visitors from falling down the steep hillside.