Made of gold and ivory, as certain pieces of sculpture or artwork in ancient Greece.
[Greek khrūselephantinos : khrūs-, khrūso-, chryso- + elephās, elephant-, ivory; see elephant.]
chryselephantine
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chrys·el·e·phan·tine (krĭ-sĕl'ə-făn'tēn', -tīn')  |
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Made of gold and ivory, as certain pieces of sculpture or artwork in ancient Greece.
Made of gold and ivory, as certain pieces of sculpture or artwork in ancient Greece.
| Architecture: chryselephantine |
Made of gold and ivory; descriptive of statues of divinities, like Zeus at Olympia, with ivory for the flesh and gold for the drapery, on a wooden armature.
| Classical Literature Companion: chryselephantine |
chryselephantine (‘of gold and ivory’), term used to describe certain Greek statues made of wood overlaid with gold and ivory, such as Pheidias' statue of Athena in the Parthenon.
| Archaeology Dictionary: chryselephantine |
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A high-quality Greek statue built up on a wooden core and covered with plates of gold for the clothing and ivory for the uncovered parts of the body. The two most famous examples are the cult statue of Athena that stood in the Parthenon in Athens and the statute of Zeus at Olympia. Both date to the 5th century bc.
| Columbia Encyclopedia: chryselephantine |
chryselephantine (krĭs'ĕləfăn'tĭn, -tīn), Greek sculptural technique developed in the 6th cent. B.C. Sculptures, especially temple colossi, were made with an inner core of wood overlaid with ivory, to simulate flesh, and gold, to represent drapery. The great Parthenon Athena, now lost, was chryselephantine.
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- Kolotes (art)
- Thrasymedes (art)
- Theodotos (architecture)
- Panainos (art)
- Olympia (in archaeology)
- Kanachos (art)
- Phidias (Ancient Greek sculptor)
- Pheidias
- Kalamis (art)
- Pasiteles (art)
- Theokosmos (art)
- ivory (material, mammal)
- Constantine I
- Chryselephantine sculpture
