-
sculpture made with gold and ivory.
Chryselephantine cult
statues enjo**** high
status in
Ancient Greece.
Chryselephantine statues were
built around a wooden...
- king of the gods on
Mount Olympus.[citation needed] The
statue was a
chryselephantine sculpture of
ivory plates and gold
panels on a
wooden framework. Zeus...
- order.
Callimachus was
known for his
exceptional work in
creating chryselephantine sculptures.
According to the
ancient Gr****
writer Pliny the Elder,...
-
other figures of
Athena on the Acropolis, the huge gold and
ivory ("
chryselephantine") cult
image of
Athena Parthenos in the
Parthenon and the
Lemnian Athena...
- Gr****: Παρθένος Ἀθηνᾶ, lit. 'Athena the Virgin') was a
monumental chryselephantine sculpture of the
goddess Athena.
Attributed to
Phidias and
dated to...
- antiquity,
Phidias was
celebrated for his
statues in
bronze and his
chryselephantine works (statues made of gold and ivory). In the
Hippias Major, Plato...
- the
favoured medium for
major works by the
early 5th century,
while chryselephantine sculptures, made
largely of gold and
ivory and used for
temple cult...
- and lithos,
English translation: "extremity" and "stone". Similarly,
chryselephantine sculpture used
ivory instead of marble, and
often gold on
parts of...
-
Preiss used
Brazilian green onyx for the base on the
majority of his
chryselephantine sculptures.
Green onyx was also used for
trays and pin
dishes – produced...
-
colossal chryselephantine statue of Zeus
occupied the
cella of the temple. The statue's form of
construction was unusual, as the use of
chryselephantine was...
