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Phidian
[ fid-ee-uhn ]
adjective
- of, associated with, or following the style of Phidias, as exemplified in the Parthenon.
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Other Words From
- post-Phidi·an adjective
- pre-Phidi·an adjective
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Example Sentences
The other great Phidian ideal, that of Athena, was represented by several statues, both in Athens and in other cities.
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It is true that full drapery seems more consistent with the dignified and august figures of Phidian art.
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Like the Phidian Zeus his proportions are all the more majestic for the distance which rounds over any venial defect.
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These are the entelechy of Phidian Genius; and who but must see these in Chantreys solar face, and in all his manners?
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But this is only a farmer's criticism,—a Crispin feeling the bunions on some Phidian statue.
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