Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1884 — The First Model of a Human Head. [ARTICLE]

The First Model of a Human Head.

The first person who became a model is said to have been a lover and" lived" in the ancient days of Greece. He was 1 about to travel add .Jeavrhis Sicyou, and after a repetition of vows of constancy on both, sides he fell asleep, and from the position of the lamp his profile was thrown strongly on the wall. The.maiden in passing through the room observed this, and, • taking up a piece of charcoal, sketched the outline of the shadow. The father, when he saw what had been done, thought itwell to preserve it in clay,and taking some of the material in which he worked, made the first model of a human head. • . ’