- Jean Léon Gérôme
"... Pygmalion went to the statue and the touch, he thought he was hot, the ivory softened and deposing its hardness, yield to gentle finger as Mount Hymettus wax softens the sun's rays and left handle with your fingers, taking various shapes and become more gentle and soft on management. Seeing, Pygmalion is filled with great joy mixed with fear, believing he was mistaken. He touched the statue other time, and made sure it was a flexible body and the veins were in their beats to explore with your fingers ... "
From Ovid, The Metamorphosis.
Book X. 
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