Institutio oratoria, 2.3.6
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Literature: prose See all items with this value
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1st century CE See all items with this value
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2nd century CE See all items with this value
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Quintilian See all items with this value
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Institutio oratoria, 2.3.6
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… nisi forte Iovem quidem Phidias optime fecit, illa autem quae in ornamentum operis eius accedunt alius melius elaborasset ...
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Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Sculpture: Deity See all items with this value
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Statue of Zeus at Olympia, by Phidias (ancient master sculptor)
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Visual Work: Sculpture: Relief See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Material: Glass See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Material: Precious Metals: Gold See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Material: Chryselephantine See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Painting See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Material: Ivory See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Material: Ebony See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Material: Precious Stones See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Clothing See all items with this value
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"The ornaments of the statue": perhaps most immediately understood by the modern reader as its drapery, but for the ancient reader, surely including all the features that Pausanias describes and for which Phidias could conceivably taken responsibility: sculpted wreath of olive sprays
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gilded glass robe, carved with figural relief representations of animals and lilies
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small chryselephantine statue of crowned Nike in the right hand
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sceptre inlaid with various metals, supporting an eagle, in the statue's left hand
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throne adorned with painted figures and wrought images (figural relief sculpture, and perhaps in the round, or almost so, at the feet and potentially on the rods that run under the throne), and with gold, precious stones, ebony, and ivory
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golden sandals
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footstool adorned with a figural relief sculpture of an Amazonomachy
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further sculpted figural relief works in gold on the pedestal
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the passage underneath the throne restricted by painted screens. In sum: visual works and media: sculpture, painting, precious materials.
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Pausanias, Graecae descriptio, 5.11.1-10
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A00274
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