Definition of "Praxiteles"
proper noun (Ancient Greece) The most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BCE , and the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life -size statue . quotations examples
Quotations The altar was adorned with the masterly sculptures of Praxiteles who had , perhaps , selected from the favorite legends of the place the birth of the divine children of Latona , the concealment of Apollo after the slaughter of the Cyclops , and the clemency of Bacchus to the vanquished Amazons .
1776, Edward Gibbon, chapter X, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […]
Upon its surface of bronze were elaborately wrought , in the still exquisite workmanship of Greece , reliefs of the Olympian games ; […] they paused motionless , as if suddenly transformed into stone —lifeless , but lifelike , as one of the breathing wonders of Praxiteles
1834, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter I, in The Last Days of Pompeii. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […]; successor to Henry Colburn