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magnificence of whose genius was perceptible even in
the smallest of his productions.
Pausanias, in his description of the Parthenon, unites
the accounts of the sculptures, which adorn the tympa-
num of the two pediments, with that of the colossal
statue of ivory and gold, concluding that the reader is
already acquainted with the author of these works,
and as if he would spare the repetition of particulars
which he conceives to be generally known.
But we are not to infer from hence that Phidias
confined himself to toreutic work alone, for we have
the testimony of Aristotle already cited, as well as of
others/2) to show that he was an able sculptor in
marble.
Pliny also asserts this, and adds that under him a
number of other artists of extraordin ary merit exercised
their talents/3) such as Agoracritus, Alcamenes and
2 Paus. Att. C. xiv. ro Bs t<j>' ^uwv £ti ayakpa \lOov Haplov Kal ipyov <t>ti$iov.
Paus. Att. c. XXxiii. tovtov <t*eidlat; tov \l6ov sipyaaaro, ayaXfta ftfv ttvai
3 See the letters of M. Quatremere de Quincy to Canova on the part
which Phidias may have taken in the works of the Parthenon.
magnificence of whose genius was perceptible even in
the smallest of his productions.
Pausanias, in his description of the Parthenon, unites
the accounts of the sculptures, which adorn the tympa-
num of the two pediments, with that of the colossal
statue of ivory and gold, concluding that the reader is
already acquainted with the author of these works,
and as if he would spare the repetition of particulars
which he conceives to be generally known.
But we are not to infer from hence that Phidias
confined himself to toreutic work alone, for we have
the testimony of Aristotle already cited, as well as of
others/2) to show that he was an able sculptor in
marble.
Pliny also asserts this, and adds that under him a
number of other artists of extraordin ary merit exercised
their talents/3) such as Agoracritus, Alcamenes and
2 Paus. Att. C. xiv. ro Bs t<j>' ^uwv £ti ayakpa \lOov Haplov Kal ipyov <t>ti$iov.
Paus. Att. c. XXxiii. tovtov <t*eidlat; tov \l6ov sipyaaaro, ayaXfta ftfv ttvai
3 See the letters of M. Quatremere de Quincy to Canova on the part
which Phidias may have taken in the works of the Parthenon.