Tuesday, May 5, 2009
birth of western art
Joseph Benoît Suvée
[1743-1807],
Invention of the Art of Drawing
, 1791
Pliny the Elder
’s legend attributes the first portrait drawing to Dibutade, the daughter of a Corinthian potter, who used chalk to trace the outline of her departing lover’s shadow onto a wall.
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