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nian, son of Charmidas, made me/'* This
most renowned was the last of his productions.
He died A.C. 432 ; and the Eleans, in vene-
ration for his memory, decreed that his de-
scendants should be intrusted with the care
of the famous Jupiter. Phidias had two bro-
thers, Panaenus and Phistenetes, who excelled
in painting; and among his principal scholars
were Agoracritus, Colotes, and Alcamenes.
Of Alcamenes, bred in the celebrated school Alcamenes.
of Phidias, we know little but his works.
These however did the utmost credit to his
abilities, and have procured him a lasting
fame. That he was inferior only to his great
instructor, may be drawn from the following
circumstance, which is related of them. Phi-
dias and he were each charged with making a
statue of Minerva, in order that the more per-
fect of the two might be placed on a column
at a considerable height. They were exhi-
bited to the public view; and upon a near
* Phidiam clarissimum esse per omnes gentes, quae Jovis
Olympii fa mam intelligent, nemo dubitat :—Neque ad hoc Jovis
Olympii pulcritudine utemur, non Minervse Athenis factae am-
plitudine, cum sit ea cubitorum viginti sex, ebore haec et aura
constat 3 sed scuta ejus in quo Amazonum prselium cselavit
turaescente ambitu parmae ; &c. Plin. lib. xxxvi. 5.
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69
nian, son of Charmidas, made me/'* This
most renowned was the last of his productions.
He died A.C. 432 ; and the Eleans, in vene-
ration for his memory, decreed that his de-
scendants should be intrusted with the care
of the famous Jupiter. Phidias had two bro-
thers, Panaenus and Phistenetes, who excelled
in painting; and among his principal scholars
were Agoracritus, Colotes, and Alcamenes.
Of Alcamenes, bred in the celebrated school Alcamenes.
of Phidias, we know little but his works.
These however did the utmost credit to his
abilities, and have procured him a lasting
fame. That he was inferior only to his great
instructor, may be drawn from the following
circumstance, which is related of them. Phi-
dias and he were each charged with making a
statue of Minerva, in order that the more per-
fect of the two might be placed on a column
at a considerable height. They were exhi-
bited to the public view; and upon a near
* Phidiam clarissimum esse per omnes gentes, quae Jovis
Olympii fa mam intelligent, nemo dubitat :—Neque ad hoc Jovis
Olympii pulcritudine utemur, non Minervse Athenis factae am-
plitudine, cum sit ea cubitorum viginti sex, ebore haec et aura
constat 3 sed scuta ejus in quo Amazonum prselium cselavit
turaescente ambitu parmae ; &c. Plin. lib. xxxvi. 5.
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