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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Greek sculptor whose few surviving works include Hermes Carrying Dionysius, discovered in 1877 at Olympia.
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- noun ancient Greek sculptor (circa 370-330 BC)
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Wife and I agree that Miss Venezuela is a statuesque goddess such as Praxiteles must have loved.
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_NH_ XXXIV 71 'habet simulacrum et benignitas eius [' Praxiteles 'generosity is seen in one of his statues']; Calamidis enim quadrigae aurigam suum imposuit, ne melior in equorum effigie defecisse in homine crederetur. ipse Calamis et alias quadrigas bigasque fecit equis sine aemulo expressis '.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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"Praxiteles," he jerked out, between the puffs, "and in the age of
News from the Duchy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Oh, for a Phidias or a Praxiteles to have made the wonder of her body immortal!
THE PRINCESS 2010
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One might characterize this as the microcosmically ideal Ballard fantasy, in that it partakes of the surreal — the “Gulliver” being represented as a huge flesh statue based on the work of Praxiteles — as well as of the Freudian: “as if the mutilation of this motionless colossus had released a sudden flood of repressed spite.”
The Catastrophist 2010
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Its 2004 acquisition of a bronze Greco-Roman there is debate over the actual date and origin statue of Apollo was intended to be included in a current Louvre exhibition of the work of sculptor Praxiteles, but the Greek government threatened to withhold all loans to the French museum if this particular work was included.
Daniel Grant: Is It Possible to "Collect" Antiquities These Days? Daniel Grant 2011
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One might characterize this as the microcosmically ideal Ballard fantasy, in that it partakes of the surreal — the “Gulliver” being represented as a huge flesh statue based on the work of Praxiteles — as well as of the Freudian: “as if the mutilation of this motionless colossus had released a sudden flood of repressed spite.”
The Catastrophist 2010
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As art historians Alex Nagel and Chris Woods have argued, by faithfully depicting a Greek from the east, Pisanello may have felt he was also looking back in time at the Greece of Socrates and Praxiteles.
Gopnik's Daily Pic: The first commemorative medal Blake Gopnik 2010
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Its 2004 acquisition of a bronze Greco-Roman there is debate over the actual date and origin statue of Apollo was intended to be included in a current Louvre exhibition of the work of sculptor Praxiteles, but the Greek government threatened to withhold all loans to the French museum if this particular work was included.
Daniel Grant: Is It Possible to "Collect" Antiquities These Days? Daniel Grant 2011
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Looking up one sees an immense blue sky, painted with spheres and white insets inscribed with the names of leading Greek sculptors from the 4th century: Cephisodotus, Lysippus, Myron, Phidias, Polyclitus, Praxiteles and Scopas.
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