Pedestal

A pedestal - or pedestal - is a sometimes quite elaborately designed base of buildings, statues or pillars.

Shaping

Most are located on him in the form of an inscription the most important information ( personal names, event correlations or data) for each monument.

A pedestal is divided into Fußgesims, Postamentschaft and cornice. If it is at the base just a simple kept, low floor tile, it is called this plinth.

Examples

One example is about the pedestal of Trajan's Column in Rome dar. The Roman emperor Trajan could be represented on the statue of his successes in the Dacian wars. The pedestal came here to different tasks: First, it represents the input to the walk- pillar, it has been designed as a repository for the urn of the Emperor and finally it acts as a carrier of the dedicatory inscription.

A recent example is the equestrian statue of Frederick the Great by Christian Daniel Rauch in 1851 in Berlin with his artistic and structurally complex base construction.