He only started painting when he was 27 years old.
His life is documented on the letters he has wrote.
Before declaring he was an artist, he attempted many other careers.
For most of his life he had a mental illness.
He cut off his own ear.
Technique is the way in which an artist creates a work of art, using the media he/she decides to use. The technique and media the artist uses will change the finished results, and the messages and/or feelings it conveys to the viewer.
However, two of them, Aglaurus and Herse, curious to see what was inside, opened it and saw the infant Erichthonius wrapped around a snake. Driven in madness due to the sight, the two sisters along with the third, Pandrosus, fled and fell off the Acropolis to their deaths.