How To Use Phidias In A Sentence
- The intrinsic value of the materials employed predominates in the earlier model: the value of plate at an Athenian symposium, or the value of gold and ivory in the chryselephantine statues by Phidias.
- Oh, for a Phidias or a Praxiteles to have made the wonder of her body immortal! THE PRINCESS
- Looking up one sees an immense blue sky, painted with spheres and white insets inscribed with the names of leading Greek sculptors from the 4th century: Cephisodotus, Lysippus, Myron, Phidias, Polyclitus, Praxiteles and Scopas. Cy Twombly's Ceiling at the Musee du Louvre
- The intrinsic value of the materials employed predominates in the earlier model: the value of plate at an Athenian symposium, or the value of gold and ivory in the chryselephantine statues by Phidias.
- What boots it to tell that the arms and vesture of this "chryselephantine" statue are of pure gold; that the flesh portions are of gleaming ivory; that Phidias has wrought the whole so nobly together that this material, too sumptuous for common artists, becomes under his assembling the perfect substance for the manifestation of deity? A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
- The Hera is described by Pausanias, but no secure copies of her survive, presumably because antiquity rated her inferior to the great chryselephantine statues of Phidias.
