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HISTORY OF ARTISTS.
daughter,' who traced the outline of her departing lover's shadow on the
wall, which her father filled up with clay and thus formed the first relief.
This work of the first great artist, Love, was preserved in the Nym-
phaeum at Corinth down to the time of Mummius. Pliny also relates
that Dibutades first mingled red earth with the clay, and formed the
masks which were fixed at the end of the lowest hollow tiles on the
roofs of temples, and were called prostypa, ectypa (antcfixa).1
Glaucus of Chios.
According to the most ancient process, statues of metal were
made of separate plates beaten out by the hammer, and then riveted
together by nails. Among the most important inventions of this
early period is that of soldering- metals,3 which is attributed to Glaucus
of Chios. Suidas and Stcphanus of Byzantium call him a Samian,
and the latter author and Eusebius refer him to 01. 22 (692 B.C.),
while others make him contemporary with Alyattes (618-560 B.C.).
This monarch consecrated a silver cr&ter at Delphi after his illness,
for which Glaucus made an iron stand {viroKpi]Ti]pihzov criSljpeov
koW^tov):1 These dates cannot, of course, be reconciled, and we
must remember that the iron stand may have been inherited by
Alyattes, and that it was not unusual to offer older works in the
temples of the Gods.
A still more important invention was that of casting statues in
bronze, attributed to
RlIOZCUS and Theodorus of Samos.
The same difficulty recurs with regard to the date of Theodorus,
whom Brunn and others place about 01. 50 (580 B.C.). Ottfried
Muller :' supposes that Rhcecus, son of Phileas, the first architect of
1 xxxv. 152. : Herod, i. 25. Pausan. x. 16. 1.
Only iron (oflqpos), not bronze.
4 KuHst bit Hottur, 29.
* Arch. d. A'tius/, ,Scc. Co.
HISTORY OF ARTISTS.
daughter,' who traced the outline of her departing lover's shadow on the
wall, which her father filled up with clay and thus formed the first relief.
This work of the first great artist, Love, was preserved in the Nym-
phaeum at Corinth down to the time of Mummius. Pliny also relates
that Dibutades first mingled red earth with the clay, and formed the
masks which were fixed at the end of the lowest hollow tiles on the
roofs of temples, and were called prostypa, ectypa (antcfixa).1
Glaucus of Chios.
According to the most ancient process, statues of metal were
made of separate plates beaten out by the hammer, and then riveted
together by nails. Among the most important inventions of this
early period is that of soldering- metals,3 which is attributed to Glaucus
of Chios. Suidas and Stcphanus of Byzantium call him a Samian,
and the latter author and Eusebius refer him to 01. 22 (692 B.C.),
while others make him contemporary with Alyattes (618-560 B.C.).
This monarch consecrated a silver cr&ter at Delphi after his illness,
for which Glaucus made an iron stand {viroKpi]Ti]pihzov criSljpeov
koW^tov):1 These dates cannot, of course, be reconciled, and we
must remember that the iron stand may have been inherited by
Alyattes, and that it was not unusual to offer older works in the
temples of the Gods.
A still more important invention was that of casting statues in
bronze, attributed to
RlIOZCUS and Theodorus of Samos.
The same difficulty recurs with regard to the date of Theodorus,
whom Brunn and others place about 01. 50 (580 B.C.). Ottfried
Muller :' supposes that Rhcecus, son of Phileas, the first architect of
1 xxxv. 152. : Herod, i. 25. Pausan. x. 16. 1.
Only iron (oflqpos), not bronze.
4 KuHst bit Hottur, 29.
* Arch. d. A'tius/, ,Scc. Co.