It hardly seems probable that the magnificent chryselephantinestatues of such temples were ever thus left exposed to the extremes of the climate, which are often severe even in Greece.
It was the work of Ictinus and Callicrates, built to enshrine the noble statue of the goddess by Phidias, a standing chryselephantine figure forty feet high.
The cella or naos was built to enshrine the chryselephantine statue of Athena by Pheidias.
Although the twochryselephantine colossal statues, notwithstanding the perishable nature of their construction, were comparatively long preserved--being in existence at the end of the fourth century A.
They show that the forms of the edifice are more primitive than would have been expected from the age in which Pheidias completed the celebrated chryselephantine statue of the temple deity.
His devotional images are few and without especial fame, with exception of the colossal chryselephantine Hera in the temple between Argos and Mykenae.
The chryselephantine Aphrodite in Sikyon, represented with the polos upon the head and with poppy flower and apples in the hands, must have been particularly archaic in conception.
The perfection of the chryselephantine process seems early to have been obtained, the wood, before in great part visible, was by the latter artists used only as a kernel, being completely covered with ivory and gold.
Philopator, with its Temple of Aphrodite and many halls, one of which had chryselephantine Corinthian columns, and was decorated by a frieze of reliefs executed in ivory and affixed to a golden ground.
The sphyrelaton was, indeed, nearly related to chryselephantine work which was virtually a combination of the sphyrelaton with the ancient xoanon.
The treatment of the garments, and the whole position of this otherwise ill-executed figure, remind us of the chryselephantine works, and possess something of the dignity and nobility of the better period.
There were statues in metal and marble, bas-reliefs in various kinds of stone and marble, as well as some chryselephantine statues.
Next it reached the hammered bronze image, passed through the archaic marbles, and culminated in the finer marbles and the chryselephantine statues of Zeus and Athena.
From the sixth century before Christ date three processes of great importance in the development of sculpture; the art of casting in bronze, the chiselling of marble, and the inlaying of gold and ivory on wood (chryselephantine work).
His statues of divinities are not numerous: a Zeus at Argos, an Aphrodite at Amyclae, and, more famous than either, the chryselephantine Hera for a temple between Argos and Mycenae.
Pausanias tells us[151] that the xoanon brought from Eleutherae was in one of the two temples in the theatre-precinct, while the other contained the chryselephantine statue of Alcamenes.
Certainly, if there had been a second chryselephantine statue of Athena on the Acropolis, we should know of its existence.
I imagined this Arachne in marble or chryselephantine work, what a painful feeling overpowered me!
The statues, by Archias's orders, were to be executed in chryselephantine work, and the gold and ivory which this required might only too easily awaken the vice of cupidity in the honest and frugal Biamites.
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