. A history of art in ancient Egypt . Change Observable in Egyptian Art. o wanting until the eleventh, the first of the Middle is one of those sudden interruptions in the history ofEgypt which may be compared to the temporary disappearanceof those curious rivers which run partly underground.^ 1^,!. Slip mm Fig. 47.—Statue from the Ancient Empire, in limestone. Boulak. Drawn by Bourgoin. When historians, living as long after our nineteenth century aswe do after the epochs of Memphite and Theban supremacy inEgypt, come to treat the history of the past, they will perhaps M. Melchoir d
. A history of art in ancient Egypt . Change Observable in Egyptian Art. o wanting until the eleventh, the first of the Middle is one of those sudden interruptions in the history ofEgypt which may be compared to the temporary disappearanceof those curious rivers which run partly underground.^ 1^,!. Slip mm Fig. 47.—Statue from the Ancient Empire, in limestone. Boulak. Drawn by Bourgoin. When historians, living as long after our nineteenth century aswe do after the epochs of Memphite and Theban supremacy inEgypt, come to treat the history of the past, they will perhaps M. Melchoir de Vogue, C/iez /es Pharaons {Rrcue des Deux Mondes ofJan. 15, 1S77). VOL. I. I^ 74 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. look upon the ages which rolled away between the fall of Graeco-Roman civilization and the revival of learning in the fifteenth andsixteenth centuries as no longer than that which divided theancient from the middle empire of Egypt, or the latter from thedynasties of Thebes. In the distant future men will know, in avague fashion, that between the fall of Rome and the discoveryof printing, or that of America, there were great movementsamong the nations, and an apparent recoil of civilization; butmemory and imagination will leap without effort over the gap,over that period which we call
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