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Phidias

Greek sculptor, painter and architect (c.480–430 BC)

7 dated entries naming Phidias, drawn from 7 separate years between 465 BCE and 430 BCE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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5th century BC

  • 465 BCEPhidias begins producing the sculpture called The Athena Promachos (The Defender) and completes it ten years later.source
  • 456 BCEThe first of the Athenian sculptor Phidias' monuments to Athena, the bronze Athena Promachos, is placed on the Athenian Acropolis, measuring about 9 metres high.source
  • 449 BCEPericles 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.source
  • 438 BCEThe 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.source
  • 435 BCEA 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.source
  • 431 BCEPhidias 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.source
  • 430 BCEPhidias, Greek sculptor (approximate date) (b. c. 480 BC)source

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