{"slug": "phidias", "label": "Phidias", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phidias", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q177302", "qid": "Q177302", "description": "Greek sculptor, painter and architect (c.480–430 BC)", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [-464, -429], "span_label": ["465 BCE", "430 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "acropolis", "label": "Acropolis", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "athena", "label": "Athena", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "olympia-greece", "label": "Olympia, Greece", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-elis", "label": "Ancient Elis", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "seven-wonders-of-the-ancient-world", "label": "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -464, "year_label": "465 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Phidias begins producing the sculpture called The Athena Promachos (The Defender) and completes it ten years later.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1094347891#Arts", "title": "465 BC", "revid": 1094347891, "section": "Events › By topic › Arts"}}, {"year": -455, "year_label": "456 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The first of the Athenian sculptor Phidias' monuments to Athena, the bronze Athena Promachos, is placed on the Athenian Acropolis, measuring about 9 metres high.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1000478716#Greece", "title": "456 BC", "revid": 1000478716, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -448, "year_label": "449 BCE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Pericles places the Athenian sculptor Phidias in charge of all the artistic aspects of his reconstruction program. Construction begins on the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens, while the Athenian Senate commissions Callicrates to construct a temple to Athena Nike on the Acropolis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1309703382#Greece", "title": "449 BC", "revid": 1309703382, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -437, "year_label": "438 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The colossal statue of the Athena Parthenos, which Phidias has made for the Parthenon, is completed and dedicated. It is made of gold and ivory and stands some 12 metres high.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326570904#Greece", "title": "438 BC", "revid": 1326570904, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -434, "year_label": "435 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "A gold and ivory statue of Zeus, king of the gods, is completed at Elis by the Athenian sculptor Phidias for the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. The statue becomes one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The Olympian Zeus is about seven times life size (or 13 metres) and occupies the full height of the temple.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172915#Art", "title": "435 BC", "revid": 1354172915, "section": "Events › By topic › Art"}}, {"year": -430, "year_label": "431 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Phidias returns to Athens, where he is imprisoned (for having been portrayed on the shield of the statue of the goddess Athena) and dies before the trial.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364036128#Deaths", "title": "431 BC", "revid": 1364036128, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -429, "year_label": "430 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Phidias, Greek sculptor (approximate date) (b. c. 480 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342662145#Deaths", "title": "430 BC", "revid": 1342662145, "section": "Deaths"}}]}