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Pheidias

noun
1.
Ancient Greek sculptor (circa 500-432 BC).  Synonym: Phidias.






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"Pheidias" Quotes from Famous Books



... the most celebrated architects often called themselves by the most humble titles—"Magister lignaminio," "maestro di legname," "faber lignarius," "carpentarius." Minerva, the worker, was the patron of all workmen from Pheidias to the lowest pottery thrower, and in Christian times the Quattro Coronati, the four workmen-saints, were the patrons of all who worked ...
— Intarsia and Marquetry • F. Hamilton Jackson

... Christ,' he goes on to say, 'in the eighth century before Christ, in the heart of a world of idolatrous polytheists, the Hebrew prophets put forth a conception of religion which appears to me to be as wonderful an inspiration of genius as the art of Pheidias or the science of Aristotle. "What doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God?" If any so-called religion takes away from this great saying of Micah, I think it wantonly mutilates, while if it adds thereto, ...
— A Handful of Stars - Texts That Have Moved Great Minds • Frank W. Boreham



Words linked to "Pheidias" :   statue maker, carver, sculptor, Phidias, sculpturer



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