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PHIDIAS AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES. 127
are distinguishable in different portions of the sculp-
tures. Phidias, no doubt, overlooked the process,
and perhaps touched and finished all the more im-
portant figures.
Phidias and his school, it has already been ob-
served, brought sculpture to a standard of excel-
lence ; and they so fixed and determined the counte-
nances, figures, and attributes of the various divinities,
that neither painters nor sculptors in succeeding times,
for more than two thousand two hundred years, have
presumed, in any great degree, to deviate from them.
such works as are believed to have been executed under the eye
of Phidias, who, instead of distorting the features of his statues
placed at a great height, simply enlarged their proportions, and
formed them in what the moderns call the heroic size. The
standing figures in the pediments of the Parthenon were eight
and nine feet high.
Pausanias, in his Boeotica, mentions bronze statues of Minerva
Itonia and Jupiter, by Agoracritus, whom he calls the disciple
and beloved of Phidias, ptrfyirov Ti xat i^u^wu iiii/ov.
are distinguishable in different portions of the sculp-
tures. Phidias, no doubt, overlooked the process,
and perhaps touched and finished all the more im-
portant figures.
Phidias and his school, it has already been ob-
served, brought sculpture to a standard of excel-
lence ; and they so fixed and determined the counte-
nances, figures, and attributes of the various divinities,
that neither painters nor sculptors in succeeding times,
for more than two thousand two hundred years, have
presumed, in any great degree, to deviate from them.
such works as are believed to have been executed under the eye
of Phidias, who, instead of distorting the features of his statues
placed at a great height, simply enlarged their proportions, and
formed them in what the moderns call the heroic size. The
standing figures in the pediments of the Parthenon were eight
and nine feet high.
Pausanias, in his Boeotica, mentions bronze statues of Minerva
Itonia and Jupiter, by Agoracritus, whom he calls the disciple
and beloved of Phidias, ptrfyirov Ti xat i^u^wu iiii/ov.