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    Parthenon Frieze (category Sculptures by Phidias)
    sculpted between c. 443 and 437 BC, most likely under the direction of Phidias. Of the 160 meters (524 ft) of the original frieze, 128 meters (420 ft)...
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    Éméric-David thought it dated to c. 420 BC – c. 380 BC, between sculptors Phidias and Praxiteles; Quatremère de Quincy attributed it to the mid-fourth century...
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    (Greek: Λόγιος, speaker), his attitude is consistent with the attribute. Phidias left a statue of a famous Hermes Logios and Praxiteles another, also well...
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    If they were made by several artists, the master builder was certainly Phidias. They were carved between 447 or 446 BC. or at the latest 438 BC, with...
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    ivory statue of her in the Parthenon created by the Athenian sculptor Phidias. Copies reveal that this statue depicted Athena holding her shield in her...
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    (from Hadrian's Villa) A classical marble krater decorated with cranes and snakes Detail of marble krater decorated with cranes and snakes Amazon head...
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    of vessels for storing, serving or drinking liquids such as amphorae, kraters (bowls for mixing wine and water), hydria (water jars), libation bowls...
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    his head, attacking another fallen Giant. None of the Giants are named. Phidias used the theme for the metopes of the east façade of the Parthenon (c....
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    portrait's frontality refers to the colossal Statue of Zeus at Olympia by Phidias, whose pose served as the model not only for many representations of sovereigns...
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  • Ammonius Saccas Amoebaean singing Amompharetus Ampersand Painter Amphiaraos Krater Amphiareion of Oropos Amphicleia Amphictyon Amphictyonic League Amphictyonis...
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    fit the size and angle of each part of the space. The famous sculptor Phidias fills the space at the Parthenon (448–432 BC) with a complex array of draped...
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    a statue of the goddess Roma seated, modelled on the Greek statues of Phidias, which probably belonged to a 1st-century arch. In the shelves of the staircase...
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    the death of Tammuz. Reconstruction by Quatremère de Quincy (1815) of Phidias's Statue of Zeus at Olympia, based on ancient descriptions and surviving...
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    Study for Phidias in The Apotheosis of Homer, oil on canvas, 1827, San Diego Museum of Art...
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    The lost original would have been bronze. The name of the teacher of Phidias, Hegias of Athens is sometimes invoked, but there are no surviving examples...
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    coin from the imperial period and a late republican relief krater, the so-called "Finlay Krater", both of which depict Athena in a dramatic confrontation...
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