ROME — The greatest challenge of mounting an exhibition about the famous ancient Greek artist Phidias (c. 480–c. 430 BCE) is that not a single surviving piece of work can be attributed to him with ...

Orig. local. western pediment of the Parthenon. Cast from the original, among the Elgin Marbles, Brit. Museum. [P. 13; exhibited under heading: "Gallery of Sculpture" and preceded by a statement ...

When Paulus Emilus, Emperor of Rome, beheld the statue of Zeus Olympus which a Greek, Phidias of Athens, had erected at Olympia in ivory and gold, he trembled in all his limbs, and ordered sacrifices ...

Some of history’s greatest monuments are surrounded by as many legends as the mythical heroes that inspired them. It is no surprise, then, that much of the artistic devotion given to these inspiring ...

Presented by E.E. Salisbury. [P. 10; exhibited under heading: "Sculpture."] Third Annual Exhibition of the Yale School of the Fine Arts, founded as a Department of Yale College, by the late Augustus ...

If you are on the hunt for Classical sculpture, you could obviously do much worse than Rome. From the Laocoön in the Vatican Museums to the Augustus of Prima Porta, Rome is replete with beautiful ...

There was an old sculptor named Phidias Whose statues were perfectly hideous. He made Aphrodite Without any nightie Which shocked the ultrafastidious. Last week, a replica of the famed Apollo ...