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Chryselephantine sculpture (from
Ancient Gr**** χρυσός (khrusós) 'gold' and ελεφάντινος (elephántinos) 'ivory') is a
sculpture made with gold and ivory...
- 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,...
- antiquity,
Phidias was
celebrated for his
statues in
bronze and his
chryselephantine works (statues made of gold and ivory). In the
Hippias Major, Plato...
- Gr****: Παρθένος Ἀθηνᾶ, lit. 'Athena the Virgin') was a
monumental chryselephantine sculpture of the
goddess Athena.
Attributed to
Phidias and
dated to...
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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...
- 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...
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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...
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circular memorial in
limestone and marble, a tholos,
which contained chryselephantine (ivory and gold)
statues of Philip's family: himself,
Alexander the...
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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...
