Il s'agit de la statue du dieu en l'honneur des Jeux Olympiques de l'Antiquité ont eu lieu. Elle était située sur la terre qui a donné son nom même des Jeux olympiques. Au moment des Jeux, la guerre s'arrête, et les athlètes venus d'Asie Mineure, Syrie, Egypte, et la Sicile pour célébrer les Jeux Olympiques et d'adorer leur roi des dieux, Zeus...
Place:
At the time of the ancient city d' Olympie, on the west coast of modern Greece, to approximately 150 km with l' west d' Athens.
History: The calendar of ancient Greece starts into 776 before JC, for the Olympic Games are suspected d' to have begun this year. The splendid temple of Zeus was designed by l' Libon architect and was built towards 450 before JC. Under the terms of the rise to power of ancient Greece, the doric one of the temple of simple style seemed too banal, and of the modifications were necessary. The solution: A majestic statue. The Athenian sculptor Phidias was allotted for the " sacré" tasks, painters of Michel-Angel to the Sixtine Vault. For the years which followed, the temple attracted the visitors and the faithful ones of everywhere in the world. In IIe front century repairs were skilfully made for the statue of ageing. At the first century of our era, l' Caligula Roman Emperor tried to transport the statue to Rome. However, its attempt failed when l' scaffolding built by Caligula workmen crumbled. After the Olympic Games were prohibited into 391 after JC by l' emperor Théodose I that the practices of Pagan, the temple of Zeus was ordered closed. Olympia moreover was struck by the earthquakes, landslides and floods, and the temple was damaged by fire in Ve century. Earlier, the statue had been transported by Greek rich person with a palate in Constantinople. There, she survived jusqu' with this qu' it is destroyed by a violent one sets fire to in l' year 462. Nothing remains aujourd' today on the site of l' old temple with l' exception of the rocks and the remains, the Foundation of the buildings, and columns fallen.
Description:
Phidias started to work on the statue d' approximately 440 av. Ans earlier, it had developed a technique to build statues d' however enormous and ivory. That was done by l' erection d' a timber structure on which metal sheetings and d' ivory were placed to provide the external coating. Workshop of Phidias with Olympie still exists, and is by chance - or May not to be - identical cuts some and l' orientation towards the temple of Zeus. There, it carved and engraved the various parts of the statue, before they were gathered in the temple. When the statue was completed, he pains installed in the temple. Strabon wrote: ". Although the temple itself is very large, the sculptor is criticized not to have appreciated the correct proportions. He showed Zeus sitting, but with the head touching the ceiling almost, so that we have l' impression that if Zeus moved to find me jusqu' with it unroof the temple. " Strabon was right, except that the sculptor is d' to be happiness and not criticized. C' is this impression cuts which made a so marvellous statue of it. C' is l' idea that the king of the gods is able of surgical is the temple, if it rose who fascinated the poets and the historians. The base of the statue was d' approximately 6,5 m (20 pi) broad and 1,0 meter (3 pi) height. The height of the statue itself was of 13 m (40 pi), equivalent with a modern hotel 4 stages. The statue was so high that the visitors describes the throne more than the body of Zeus and functionalities. The legs of the throne were decorated with sphinx and winged figures of the Victoire. Greek gods and of the mythical characters also decorated scene: Apollo, Artémis, and children of Niobé. The Pausanias Greek wrote: On its head is a carved crown of pulverizations d' olive. In its right hand it holds a figure of victory made out of ivory and gold… In its left hand, it holds a sceptre encrusted with all kinds of metal, with an eagle perched on the sceptre. Its sandals are out of gold, like its dress. Its clothing is carved with animals and flowers of lily. The throne is decorated with l' however, of invaluable stones, d' ebony and d' ivory. The statue was sometimes decorated with gifts with the kings and controlling. most notable of these gifts was a wool " curtain; decorated woven reasons Assyrian and the Pheonician" dyeing; who was dedicated by the king of Syria Antiochus IV. Copies of the statue were made, including one large prototype with Cyrène (Libya). No d' between them, however, jusqu' survived; at our days. At the beginning of the reconstitutions as that of von Erlach is now regarded as rather vague. For us, one can only s' to question on l' real aspect of the statue - the philosopher's stone of the Greek sculpture.
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