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The invention of drawing. Gyges of Lydia tracing his own shadow on the ground in sunlight (above) and Kora of Sicyon, daughter of potter Butades, drawing the outline of her lover on a wall by candlelight (below). Copperplate engraving by Johann Jacob von Sandrart after an illustration by Joachim von Sandrart from his LAcademia Todesca, della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura, oder Teutsche Academie, der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Kunste, German Academy of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, Jacob von Sandrart, Nuremberg, 1675.
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Caption:
The invention of drawing. Gyges of Lydia tracing his own shadow on the ground in sunlight (above) and Kora of Sicyon, daughter of potter Butades, drawing the outline of her lover on a wall by candlelight (below). Copperplate engraving by Johann Jacob von Sandrart after an illustration by Joachim von Sandrart from his LAcademia Todesca, della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura, oder Teutsche Academie, der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Kunste, German Academy of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, Jacob von Sandrart, Nuremberg, 1675.
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Album / Florilegius
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Image size:
4637 x 7174 px | 95.2 MB
Print size:
39.3 x 60.7 cm | 15.5 x 23.9 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
17TH CENTURY • 17TH • ARCHITECT (MALE) • ARCHITECT • ART • ARTIST • ARTISTE • ARTS • BUTADES • CANDLELIGHT • CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER • COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING • CULTURE • DAUGHTER • DELLA ARCHITECTURA • DER EDLEN BAU-BILD-UND MAHLEREY-KUNSTE • DRAWING • DRAWN • ENGRAVED • ENGRAVING (ARTWORK) • ENGRAVING • ENGRAVING. • ENGRAVINGS • ETCHING • EUROPA • EUROPE • EUROPEA • EUROPEAN • GALLERIA GIUSTINIANA • GERMAN ACADEMY OF ARCHITECTURE • GROUND • GYGES OF LYDIA • ILLUSTRATION • ILLUSTRATIONS • INVENTION • JACOB VON SANDRART • JOACHIM VON SANDRART • KORA OF SICYON • LACADEMIA TODESCA • LEGEND • LOVER • LOVERS • MYTH • NUREMBERG • ODER TEUTSCHE ACADEMIE • OUTLINE • PAINTER • POTTER • PRINT • SCULPTED • SCULPTING • SCULPTURE AND PAINTING • SCULPTURE • SCULPTURE. • SCULTURA & PITTURA • SHADOW • STATUE • STATUES • SUNLIGHT • TRACING • WALL • XVII CENTURY
