. A short history of art . EGYPTIAN ART 21 an apron; even the fuller and richer draperies being of light,tiansparent material. The hair was concealed by a cap,and in the case of rulers was combined with the double crownof upper and lower Egypt, or by a fantastic head-dress com-posed of symbolic attributes. The beard was wound andbent into the semblance of a hook. The artist worked undera fixed canon of arithmetical proportions, enjoined by law,which for several thousand years was only varied slightly in =3. EGYPTIAN HEADS IN RELIEFEighteenth Dynasty; Showing Traces of Semitic Blood response to
. A short history of art . EGYPTIAN ART 21 an apron; even the fuller and richer draperies being of light,tiansparent material. The hair was concealed by a cap,and in the case of rulers was combined with the double crownof upper and lower Egypt, or by a fantastic head-dress com-posed of symbolic attributes. The beard was wound andbent into the semblance of a hook. The artist worked undera fixed canon of arithmetical proportions, enjoined by law,which for several thousand years was only varied slightly in =3. EGYPTIAN HEADS IN RELIEFEighteenth Dynasty; Showing Traces of Semitic Blood response to the changing fashions, due to foreign he was unable to reach such highly wrought study ofnature as the Greeks produced, beginning with the seventhcentury Meanwhile, in contrast with the serious and formal char-acter of the detached works of Egyptian sculpture wasthe abundance of reliefs exhibited on the walls of temples,palaces, and tombs. In their infinite variety, embracingall forms of existence and occupation, rendered with ani-mated and lifelike reality, they represent a faithful his-torical narration of the whole life of the Egyptians. CHART I.—Cheonology and Aet in Egypt. M=MarietteBey. B—Bunaen. L —Lepeina. W—Wilkinson. M. B. L. W. Ancient Empire, 50O4 4400 3892 2691 Date of accession of Menes. OTHABTIES I. and II. Thinite. 1III. Memphlte. 1 Possibly Pyramid of Sakkarah. IV. Memphlte. The Great Pyramids. V. Memphlte. Tomba at Necropolis of Sak
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