Der is d beliv in d power of images dat xtends byong d work of human hands.In many societies nt only certian work of art bt also reflections n shadows are tot to embody d spirit of an animal or d soul of a person.Ancient traditions trace d origin of image making to drawing a line around a reflected image or shadow.Alberti recalled d myth of nacissus-a greek youth who fell in love wit his own image in a pool of water n compared d art painting to d reflection of roman writer QUINTILLIAN identify d 1st painting as a line traced around a shadow.Again a greek legend attributes d origin of painting n portraiture to a young woman of corinth who traced d shadow of her lover's face cast on a wall by lamp-light.Her father a porter who den filled in d outline wit clay wic he den fired.In dis d work of art inspired nt only by d impulse(deriving force)to create form,bt also by d discovery n recognition of forms dat already n by d wish to capture n preseve them.