Not since Praxiteles has there been such divinity in sculpture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poet Prince] Reference

Oh, for a Phidias, or a Praxiteles to have made the wonder of her body immortal!.    From Wordnik.com.  [“It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”] Reference

That is the account of Gettysburg by one Praxiteles Swan, onetime captain of the Confederate States Army.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bush Rules] Reference

By contrast, the idealized statues of the gods created by Greek sculptors, such as Phidias and Praxiteles, are clearly alive and animated, even when the gods are depicted at rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hegel's Aesthetics] Reference

On one hand Hawk's work bears evidence of his influences: Praxiteles, Moore, Brancusi, Picasso, Miro, Giacometti, and Calder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russ Wellen: This Hawk Flies High, But Alights on Terra Firma] Reference

There were still some statues too, Cupids believed to be by Praxiteles and Michelangelo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon’s Trail] Reference

And he missed the Praxiteles Apollo in the gymnasium—‘a sculpture of no great artistic worth’ he called it!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony and Cleopatra] Reference

As was his habit, he had gone down to the cove behind his palace to swim, and sat now on a rock looking like an ideal subject for Phidias or Praxiteles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony and Cleopatra] Reference

They still do not tell us what we would see if an original Praxiteles or Polykleitos were to be fished up tomorrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Looking for the Lost Greeks] Reference

Halicarnassus lost some statues by Praxiteles-the last raid Verres made in Asia Province, now buzzing like an angry swarm of wasps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

The proscribed of Beneventum had been on the whole an untutored lot, as content with a mawkish Neapolitan copy of some sentimental group of nymphs as with a Praxiteles or a Myron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

In contrast, his contemporary, Philostratus, asserts that it is not by imitation but by imagination that Phidias and Praxiteles work.    From Wordnik.com.  [CREATIVITY IN ART] Reference

Oh, for a Phidias or a Praxiteles to have made the wonder of her body immortal!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Princess] Reference

And the straight line of the nose, not too thin, yet fine enough for the rapture of a Praxiteles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Within the Law] Reference

Hermes of Olympia, their Hermes, was the messenger purged, by Praxiteles of very bit of dross -- noble, manly, pure, serene.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Wilderness] Reference

It caused him at the age of twenty to wear parti-coloured ties and a squashy hat, to be late for dinner on account of the sunset, and to catch art from Burne-Jones to Praxiteles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Angels Fear to Tread] Reference

"Great Praxiteles made that one, poor Philo made this one.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Buried Cities, Complete Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae] Reference

"It is the Hermes of Praxiteles," the excavators whispered among themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buried Cities, Complete Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae] Reference

They stood there talking about the wonderful works of Praxiteles and of many another artist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buried Cities, Complete Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae] Reference

"I saw a vision of the Hermes of Praxiteles in a sylvan haunt to-day; and I am thinking of that.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Cashel Byron's Profession] Reference

She discusses all the artists from Henry Worrall, a Kansas artist, to Praxiteles; all the musicians from.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893, With Portraits, Biographies and Addresses] Reference

So, doubtless, dreamed Phidias, Praxiteles, and the Rhodian Trio, and only a few time-corroded blocks of marble remain in attestation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice] Reference

They lacked that fine insight which enabled a Praxiteles and a Phidias to detect the whole internal organism beneath the bodily surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers] Reference

One hand, as white, as cold, as heavily perfect as the sculpture of a Praxiteles or a Phidias, rested with drooping fingers on the arm of the chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Witch of Prague] Reference

Anon, the springs of creative imagination, long dormant in him, were roused to activity by thoughts connected with the Faun of Praxiteles in the Capitol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawthorne and His Circle] Reference

We know that he was the son of a Cephisodotus, who was a bronze worker, and was thought to be a son of Alcamenes, thus making Praxiteles a grandson of the latter.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture] Reference

I would compare the mind to the beautiful statue of Love by Praxiteles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devereux — Volume 06] Reference

She smiled, and put forward her wrist, with a bend of its slender and alabaster lines which would have drawn a sigh from Praxiteles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romance of Travel] Reference

Zeuxis or Praxiteles may not have equaled Homer or Plato in profundity of genius, but it was only a great age which could have produced a Zeuxis or Praxiteles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference