We find accuracy, delicacy, naturalness, yet grandeur, sentiment, and beauty, such as Pheidias represented in his statues of Jupiter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference

From Pheidias to Rembrandt there is no onward movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cobwebs of Thought] Reference

One cannot imagine Pheidias making a mistake such as this.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

Pheidias and Ictinus, is still the wise mother to whom we must return.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

Like many others, she doubts that Pheidias did more than the statue inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Looking for the Lost Greeks] Reference

Pheidias and his contemporaries did not venture to represent undraped women.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

Pheidias Notes: "Keeping things in proportion." —Pheidias Blogger: current.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Guide to UU blogs.] Reference

I raised my arm, in the pose of the Pheidias Apollo, and cried out, "Victory!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mask of Apollo]

One for the political commentary list: Pheidias Notes "Keeping things in proportion" by Pheidias.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Guide to UU blogs.] Reference

Aspasia becomes good friends with the architect Pheidias as well as one of his apprentices Sokrates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

Vatican, for instance, was long regarded as an original production either of Pheidias himself or of his school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference

It is that movement which you will not find elsewhere, any more than the statues of Pheidias or the dialogues of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

No anatomical study will do for the modern artist what habitual acquaintance with the human form did for Pheidias.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art] Reference

The statue of Zeus in his Temple was created by Pheidias, whom we call Phidias, and is one of the Seven Wonders of the World.    From Wordnik.com.  [See Delphi and Die]

Pollux, executed by Pheidias and Praxiteles; and the other in the large open space in front of the great Basilica of Santa Maria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference

He was a hard-muscled, noble Zeus, fit to throw thunderbolts, a Zeus for Pheidias; the grizzle in his hair only gave him dignity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mask of Apollo]

Pheidias, in the Olympian Zeus, in the Athene of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greek Studies: a Series of Essays] Reference

Homer, worshipped by Sokrates, immortalized by Pheidias?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays] Reference

Pheidias have come to light, and to a just appreciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greek Studies: a Series of Essays] Reference

He was in poetry, what Pheidias and Michael Angelo were in art.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference

Pheidias, of Giotto and Michelangelo and Rembrandt, of Dante and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life] Reference

Athens of Pericles and Pheidias; but that little earlier Athens of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greek Studies: a Series of Essays] Reference

The alleged charges of theft were not proved, for Pheidias, by the advice of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Lives, Volume I] Reference

Pheidias or Phidias was to sculpture what Aeschylus was to tragic poetry, sublime and grand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference

The people took this man under its protection, and Pheidias was prosecuted before the Senate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Lives, Volume I] Reference

Let us take, for example, the statue of Zeus at Olympia, the most famous of the works of Pheidias.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greek View of Life] Reference

The figures carved by Pheidias for the Parthenon still shine by the side of the greatest modern sculpture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imaginations and Reveries] Reference

What if the souls in our ridiculously ugly bodies become greater and grander than the marble men of Pheidias?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Browning: How to Know Him] Reference

There is something in the comely form, the graceful drapery, which tells surely of the hand of Pheidias or Alcamenes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2] Reference

It is one of the many mighty works wherewith Pericles and his right-hand man Pheidias, and his architects Ictinus and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19] Reference

But tell me; would Pheidias when he saw the lion's talon have known that it was a lion's, if he had never seen the animal?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2] Reference

Himself, as a living man, were too loathsome for words; but here, thanks to Hokusai, he is not less admirable than Pheidias '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yet Again] Reference

Pheidias, -- an impersonation of majesty and power, -- a work which furnished models from which Michael Angelo drew his inspiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference

Pheidias was a talented fellow-citizen -- a hewer in stone by profession: what could he know of the relations of Pheidias to posterity?.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Wind] Reference

The art of sculpture, then, was greatly exercised in Greece, and there appeared many excellent craftsmen, and, among others, Pheidias, an.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 01 (of 10), Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi] Reference

They say that Pheidias, when he was shown one of the talons of a lion, computed the stature and age of the animal it belonged to, modelling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2] Reference

Pheidias obtained by the reality of his work made him an object of envy and hatred, especially when in his sculpture of the battle with the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Lives, Volume I] Reference