. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. ea-ture by which its site is characterized. Pictures of differ-ent species of trees distinguish two of the cities ; thethird stands evidently by a lake, for a pan of water isdrawn close to it, united by a line to mark close connec-tion. The connecting link between this form of representingideas and phonetic writing, whether verbal like the Chi-nese, syllabic like some of central Asia, or alphabeticlike our own, is found in hieroglyphics. These wereused in Egypt, and innumerable specimens of the
. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. ea-ture by which its site is characterized. Pictures of differ-ent species of trees distinguish two of the cities ; thethird stands evidently by a lake, for a pan of water isdrawn close to it, united by a line to mark close connec-tion. The connecting link between this form of representingideas and phonetic writing, whether verbal like the Chi-nese, syllabic like some of central Asia, or alphabeticlike our own, is found in hieroglyphics. These wereused in Egypt, and innumerable specimens of them are REPKESEXTA TIOIV /.V PAINTING AND SCULPTURE. 2 I9 still \ isible on the existing obelisks and tombs of thatcountry. Notice the characters composing the inscrip-tions in Fig. 146, page 219. In these characters the formsof natural appearances abound ; and yet some strictly-conventional meaning seems to be assigned to each ofthem. They express abstractions and qualities. To quoteagain from the work just mentioned : In the hieroglyphicwriting of the Egyptians the queen bee represents loyalty ;. FIQ. 146.—EGYPTIAN PICTURE FROM THE BOOK OF THE pages 219, 221, 222. the bull, strength; an ostrich feather, from the even-ness of its filaments, truth or justice. The figures arcoften, especially in later writings, reduced to their princi-pal parts, or even to lines, the latter being the first steptoward the formation of an alphabet. For instance, acombat is represented by two arms, one bearing a shield,the other a pike ; Upper and Lower Egypt are denotedby single stems topped with a blossom or a plume, repre. 220 PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND ARCHITECTURE. senting respectively the lotus and the papyrus. Thecoloring of the hieroglyphics is not in imitation of nature,as is the case with the earlier picture-writing, but followsa conventional system seldom departed from. The upperpart of a canopy in blue stood for the heavens, a thickwaving line of the same or a greenish hue repre
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