Phidian

American  

[fid-ee-uhn] / ˈfɪd i ən /

adjective

1. of, associated with, or following the style of Phidias, as exemplified in the Parthenon.

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Other Word Forms

• post-Phidian
  adjective
• pre-Phidian
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of Phidian

First recorded in 1800–10; Phidi(as) + -an

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Example Sentences

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Phidian

To the Phidian Jupiter it can oppose the Moses of Michael Angelo; and to the voluptuous beauty of the Queen of Cyprus, the serene and pensive loveliness of the Virgin Mother.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

The German professor, who knows the most about Phidian sculpture, is as far as his youngest pupil from being able to produce anything Phidian, but, of course, this is not a fair example.

From The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 by Various

And underneath, Apollo, crossing the sea to Delphi, of the Phidian time.

From Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 by John Ruskin

Association of ideas will in some subtle way bring us back to the Phidian demigods when we look at forms and draperies vaguely suggestive of the Parthenon.

From Imaginations and Reveries by George William Russell

There is a Phidian veil and a Venetian or rather an Italian veil, and almost everything in life and nature which could not be expressed in terms of these traditions he ignored.

From Imaginations and Reveries by George William Russell

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