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 L’Academia 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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