Statue of Zeus
An artist's rendition of the statue of Zeus at Olympia; the frontispiece for A.-C. Quatremère de Quincy's book on the sculpture, Le Jupiter Olympien, ou l'art de la sculpture antique (“The Olympian Jupiter, or the art of ancient sculpture”), published in Paris in 1814.
Statue of Zeus
statue, Olympia, Greece
Statue of Zeus, was a colossal chryselephantine (gold and ivory) sculpture of the foremost Greek god enthroned. Completed in 430 bce by the Greek sculptor Phidias, the cult statue was housed and venerated in the Temple of Zeus, which was constructed between 470 and 456 bce at Olympia, Greece, an ancient sanctuary. Because the statue has not survived, knowledge of its appearance and construction depends on ancient descriptions and other surviving evidence, supplemented by modern scholarly interpretation....
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