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19-646: From the crest between the ramps is a panoramic view over the stately bridge Norrbro stretching across the Parliament island Helgeandsholmen over to square Gustav Adolfs torg , the latter flanked by the Royal Opera and the so-called Palace of the Hereditary Prince housing the Ministry for Foreign Affairs . The bridge was originally intended to be extended some ten kilometres further north to

38-409: A stall') or plinth is a support at the bottom of a statue , vase , column , or certain altars . Smaller pedestals, especially if round in shape, may be called socles . In civil engineering , it is also called basement . The minimum height of the plinth is usually kept as 45 cm (for buildings) . It transmits loads from superstructure to the substructure and acts as the retaining wall for

57-668: 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 Asian art a lotus throne is a stylized lotus flower used as the seat or base for a figure. It is the normal pedestal for divine figures in Buddhist art and Hindu art , and often seen in Jain art . Originating in Indian art , it followed Indian religions to East Asia in particular. In imperial China,

76-582: 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 Trajan and Antoninus , or as a podium to the columns employed decoratively in the Roman triumphal arches. The architects of the Italian Renaissance , however, conceived the idea that no order was complete without a pedestal, and as

95-400: The filling inside the plinth or raised floor. In sculpting, the terms base, plinth, and pedestal are defined according to their subtle differences. A base is defined as a large mass that supports the sculpture from below. A plinth is defined as a flat and planar support which separates the sculpture from the environment. A pedestal, on the other hand, is defined as a shaft-like form that raises

114-405: The five metres thick medieval walls and under the large bricked vaults are historical objects and modern models retelling the development of the palace from its Viking origin in the 10th century. Ramps for the northern front were originally included in proposals for a rebuilding of the medieval palace Tre Kronor in the mid-17th century, and elevations from the 1690s also featured lions. Though

133-667: The foundation work of the bridge Erik Palmstedt introduced a new method. The base of a pillar was bricked on a barge with tall walls, which was then filled with enough water to sink to the piling on the bottom. There the walls of the barge were detached from its floor, which consequently became the bed of the pillar while the walls were being reused. The master builder was the innovator Jonas Lidströmer . 59°19′41.9″N 18°04′11.6″E  /  59.328306°N 18.069889°E  / 59.328306; 18.069889 Pedestal A pedestal (from French piédestal , from Italian piedistallo  'foot of

152-417: The great fire). The quadrangular pedestals were however substituted for painted cast iron in the mid-19th century. In 2000, a public convenience from the mid-18th century, arguably the oldest of the city, was discovered under the ramps following an archaeological excavation. A precursor of the modern W.C. it used water from the canal passing in front of the palace to dispose of the waste matter. In 2006

171-552: The northern front of the Royal Palace passing over Helgeandsholmen in front of the Riksdag building , and from there over to Gustav Adolfs torg . Norrbro was designed by the city architect Erik Palmstedt (1741–1803) in a neoclassical style. Norrbro was one of the first bridges of Stockholm to be built in stone. It was completed in ten years, with the northern portion, supported by three arches , finished in 1797, and

190-410: The northern front were finally completed by King Charles XIV John using rock from just north of the city and from the palace of Gustav III at Haga which was never completed. The two columns flanking the central entrance are six metres tall and cut from single blocks. They made a lasting impression on their arrival to the capital and were the pride of the architect when erected in 1695 (two years before

209-444: The old façade lightning was replaced by a new, doubling the amount of light while considerably reducing the energy required and giving enhanced prominence to details and nuances. 59°19′38.3″N 18°04′15.9″E  /  59.327306°N 18.071083°E  / 59.327306; 18.071083 Norrbro Norrbro ( Swedish for "North Bridge") is an arch bridge over Norrström in central Stockholm . It extends north from

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228-429: The old palace was completely destroyed in the devastating fire on May 7, 1697, a new proposal for the northern front was quickly produced, presenting the ramps mostly in their present shape. The portions of the ramps next to the façade were quickly completed and the lions and their plinths were installed in 1704. The work on the lower lateral parts were however not begun until after Norrbro , the bridge extending north from

247-414: 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 balustrade of the 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

266-803: The palace, was completed in 1807, and not finished until 1826-1834 when the last stage of the construction was realized to the plans of Per Axel Nyström (1793-1868). Models for the bronze lions were completed in 1700 by the French sculptor Bernard Foucquet the Younger (1640-after 1711). Foucquet used stone lions at the Villa Medici in Rome as prototypes for the commission, while the Crown had to melt sculptures taken from Kronborg Castle in Denmark to assemble

285-617: The required amount of bronze. A wide range of rocks from various regional sources were used for the palace which is discernible in the northern front where hard to cut but more resilient rock is used for the bases and railings (e.g. so called Stockholmsgranit , younger granite found readily around the capital, grey or red in colour), and less compact rock, which is easier to carve but less resilient for more elaborated details – sandstone from Gotland for ornaments and mouldings, and marble from Kolmården for balustrades and bollards . The original plans of King Charles XIII to use granite for

304-460: The royal gardens at Haga and a royal palace there never built. The eastern ramp leads down to Strömbron and Skeppsbron , and the western to Mynttorget , while the quay Slottskajen passes beneath the entire composition along the canal Stallkanalen . Inside the north-eastern wing of the palace is the Gustav III's Museum of Antiquities . Opened in 1794 and thus one of the oldest museums in

323-504: The sculpture and separates it from the base. An elevated pedestal or plinth that bears a statue, and which is raised from the substructure supporting it (typically roofs or corniches), is sometimes called an acropodium . The term is from Greek ἄκρος ákros 'topmost' and πούς poús (root ποδ- pod- ) 'foot'. Although in Syria , Asia Minor and Tunisia the Romans occasionally raised

342-462: The southern, supported by a single arch, in 1806. Norrbro replaced two old wooden bridges, Slaktarehusbron and Vedgårdsbron , both demolished on its completion. In many aspects Norrbro remained an unparalleled bridge in Stockholm for a long period, exceeding all other not only by its width (19 m) and span, but also by being the first street to be paved and furnished with separate pavements. For

361-542: The world, it displays over 200 sculptures and antiquities collected by King Gustav III during a trip in Italy as they were originally exhibited. Underneath the ramps is the Tre Kronor Museum . When inaugurated in 1999, it replaced an older and much smaller museum. It exhibits the history and archaeological remains of the medieval castle originally built in the 13th century and preceding the present palace. Inside

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