socle
- noun
- /ˈsɒkəl/
- Specialized
:
zócalo
- The statue stands proudly on a socle, enhancing its visibility in the garden.
- socle predella
- socle bench
Examples
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The high socles or believable architectural forms that often occupy the foregrounds of Roman wall paintings are missing, as are the high walls that surround other mosaic labyrinths.
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By the mid-fourteenth century at the latest, sculptors were matching these efforts with life-size, and sometimes over-life-size, single figures in stone and wood, some installed on interior socles and jambs, others designed as freestanding figures.
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This impression is deepened by the inclusion of a socle bench topped by a blind arcade.
Academic text (2000) -
The moving platform could not be placed against the wall because of the width of the presbytery's socle bench, but it came near enough to allow for good observations and photographs from reasonably close quarters.
Academic text (1997) -
Two additional scenes, conjoined to the main Passion narrative, are fixed in place on the left and right ends of the predella socle and are therefore visible when its wings are closed.
Academic text (2005) -
Recall the imagery of the right predella socle panel (Figs. 11, 15), in which the Jews cast the abused host into a woodland spring.
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Supported by a tall predella with painted shutters and, behind them, a painted predella socle, the weighty shrine is enclosed by large wing panels, each with two Passion scenes on both sides.
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Around them are arrayed numerous small saint figures, all framed by their own socle and baldachin, while more carved figures appear under Gothic canopies set into the elaborate architectural superstructure that crowns the whole.
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The atlantes in the trumeau socle, a number of the occupations depicted in the first archivolt, some of the Elders, and the two soldiers depicted in the spandrels on either side of the portal arch all survive intact and largely or entirely unrestored.
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Architects often design a socle to provide a sturdy base for large columns.
Synonyms
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4.5
A base that holds a statue, column, or vase
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8.4
A heavy base that supports a statue or column
A low base that supports a column or statue
A low base placed under heavy things such as a statue or column
Surface Forms
Etymology
Socle comes from an old word soccus that meant 'shoe' or 'clog'. Think of a socle as a little 'shoe' that lifts and supports a statue, a low stone 'base' under a wall, column, or statue.