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In the composition of Golden Age, a famous ancient Greek architect appears. Phidias.
Phidias was an Athenian sculptor and architect, active from 470 BC. around Athens, Pellene, Plataea, Thebes and Olympia.
He was the artist who best managed to interpret the ideals of Periclean Athens, which reached and informed the Greek world of the classical era also thanks to and on the basis of Phidian forms: the construction site of the Parthenon, for which Phidias worked as superintendent , was a large laboratory in which the school of Athenian sculptors active in the second half of the 5th century BC was formed. and among whom we must at least remember Agoracritus, Alcamene and Kolotes.
The importance of Phidias in the history of Greek art, never questioned, has however obscured the reality of what is really known about him: many of the crucial dates relating to his activity remain controversial, the numerous literary sources give a almost legendary image and the knowledge we have about his work is based mainly on the copies found of some sculptures, on the descriptions of ancient writers and on the iconographic references to his works deduced from ceramics, reliefs, coins and gems. None of the literary sources that have come down to us, starting from Gaius Pliny Second who follows his own sources from the Hellenistic era, return anything more than a generic rhetoric relating to the dignified grandeur of his style.
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Dimensions
55 x 35 cm - 21.6" x 13.7"
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Mediums
Archival paper 330 gr., Paper, Trasparent paper, Markers, Pencils, Spray paint - wood, glass.