Chryséléphantin
The chryséléphantin is a technique of Sculpture appeared in Greece in the neighborhoods of the VI E, being characterized by the use of plates of Ivoire (to generally represent the Chair, the Human body) and of Or assembled on a wood reinforcement. We can quote the example of the statue of Athéna which was in the Parthenon, made of gold and ivory, and which was thus a statue chryséléphantine, but also that of the temple of Zeus d' Olympie carved by Phidias which is recognized like one of the seven wonders of the world.
External bonds
- Andrew Lang, a side neglected of the Greek religion, Studies traditionnists , vol. VI, translated by Henry Carnoy, Edition J. Maisonneuve, Paris, 1890, p. 46-56.
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