Phidian
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But all was gentle and aristocratic In this our party; polish'd, smooth, and cold, As Phidian forms cut out of marble Attic.
From Don Juan by George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
Like the Phidian Zeus his proportions are all the more majestic for the distance which rounds over any venial defect.
From The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country by Henry Mann
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
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
When we find human forms suggesting a superhuman dignity, as in Watts' figures of Time and Death, or in the Phidian marbles, the type is there melting into the archetype.
From Imaginations and Reveries by George William Russell
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