. A history of art in ancient Egypt . are exceptions they all belong toone category, that of works relating todeath and burial. They also have aspecial interest of their own. They enableus to protest, and to give tangible justifi-cation for our protestations, against aprejudice which dates back to a remoteantiquity ; even if all evidence had perishedI I the critic would have no great difficulty Fig. 56.—Chephren. Sketched in Casting doubt upou assertious whichbyBourgoin. See also Fig. 460. ^^^^ j^ themselves extremely improbable, but his task is rendered much easier whenhe is able to point to
. A history of art in ancient Egypt . are exceptions they all belong toone category, that of works relating todeath and burial. They also have aspecial interest of their own. They enableus to protest, and to give tangible justifi-cation for our protestations, against aprejudice which dates back to a remoteantiquity ; even if all evidence had perishedI I the critic would have no great difficulty Fig. 56.—Chephren. Sketched in Casting doubt upou assertious whichbyBourgoin. See also Fig. 460. ^^^^ j^ themselves extremely improbable, but his task is rendered much easier whenhe is able to point to existing monuments in support of hiscontention, and his pleasure is great in seeing the certaintyof his critical methods borne out, and Egyptian art replacingitself, as if of its own motion, under the normal conditions ofhistoric development. This volume, then, will treat of the remains of early Egyptianart at a length which would seem at first sight out of due pro-portion to their number, but later ages will also be represented by. a series of monuments, which will bring us down to the Persian The Limits of our Inquiry. 91 conquest. This limit will hardly be over-passed in our choice ofexamples for study, and that for two reasons. The first is, that at the latter period the evolution of Egyptianart was complete, it had created all that it could and had becomea slave to its own past. Disposing under the Ptolemies ofall the resources of a great empire, it indeed introduced certainarchitectural changes v/hich do not seem to have been borrowedfrOm previous buildings, but those changes were of no very greatimportance and were mostly in matters of detail. In sculpture
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