468 OBSERVATIONS ON SCULPTURE. 
of a mortal, was considered by the Athenians 
as a profanation of divinity, and a crime against 
the state. 
Thus, in the statue of Minerva, which Phidias 
raised within the Parthenon, which was distin- 
guished by its size, being nearly forty feet high: 
—for the richness of the materials, namely, gold 
and ivory :—and for the exquisite beauty of the 
workmanship, which was said to awaken the idea 
of sublime majesty. Phidias was reproached with 
having sculptured his own portrait, and that of his 
patron, Pericles, on the shield of Minerva. He 
had there represented himself as an old man, in 
the act of throwing a huge stone, whilst Pericles 
appeared fighting with an Amazon. 
Another specimen of the “Imaginative” in 
Sculpture, was the statue and throne of Jupiter 
in Elis. This also was colossal, for the artist 
knew that vastness was an attribute of the sublime. 
It was sixty feet high,—was made of gold and 
ivory, as the most costly material for a divinity,— 
and the workmanship was most exquisite, so as to 
combine in the imagination of the beholders, the 
sentiment of beauty, as well as that of sublimity. 
