The legend of the daughter of the corinthian potter butades (dibutades). Johann georg hiltensperger (1806-1890). Wall panel, 1845-1848. St. Petersburg, state hermitage museum, gallery of the history of ancient painting, 5. Pliny cites this delightful tale as an illustration of the first steps in plastic art: “the first to begin to mold images from clay in corinth was the potter butades of sicyon, thanks to his daughter. She was overcome with love for a young man, and when he was leaving for a foreign land, she traced the shadow of his face from a lamp on the wall with a line, and her father put clay on this outline and received an imprint” (pliny, xxxv, 151). Date: 1845—1848.
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