Identifier: withworldspeopl04ridp (find matches)
Title: With the world's people; an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: Washington : Clark E. Ridpath
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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INTERIOR OF THli TLMll E ill ,:El.S AT OLV.MlIA, KL.-Ti)kl, geniuses. Distant cities called for them,and through all Greece the sublimework of their chisels was seen. About 437 B. C, Phidias was called toOlvmpia, in Western Pelo- Ine Phidian • -, . siission atoiym- pouncsus, to aid m glorify-ing that remarkable city ofart. Olvmpia was the place of the greatnational games and the center of one years he wrought at the task. The artevolution in Greece had now proceededfrom the coarser forms of stone, by wayof marble, to that form of statuary calledchryselephantine; that is, gold-and-ivory. Bronze had already been a longtime employed coincidently with marble.The tremendous statue of Athena Pro-machos, standing on the Acropolis, 158 GREAT RACES OF MANKIXD.
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CHRYSELEPHANTlNh STAIUK OK ZEUS ULYMllUS, Khh 1 OKKl). -lioni M.igaznit oj Art. looking out to sea, was of bronze,from the immortal hands of Phitlias.This great work was about fifty-five feet in lieight. .Statuary had becomeepical, lieroic, colossal. in Ihe execution of llic magnificent rilli GREEKS.—ARTS. J59 statue of Athena for the Promos of theParthenon, Phidias -was ordered by theStatues of city to spare no expense c^honncfzrs ^h^-it might add to the rieh-Olympics. iiess and costliness of the work. ■ He accordingly chose ivory andgold as the principal constituent mate-rials. The body of the statue and mostof the parts indicating the actual outlineof the goddess were of ivory, while theornamental parts, such as the helmetand the panoply of the bosom, were ofsolid gold. Perhaps no effect ever at-tained by any other means in art wascomparable with the splendor which wasimparted by the chryselephantine compo-sition. On going to Olymj^ia, Phidias chosethe same materials for the st

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