. A history of art in ancient Egypt . Fig. 66.—Ramesseum, Thebes. {Description deVEgypte, t. ii., pi. 28.) The proportional combinations of these elements are such thatthey cannot be methodically classified, and in this the architectureof Egypt is distinguished from that which we call classic. In Greek I02 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. art there is a modulus the quantitative relationof forms to each other, and fixes a mutual and invariable inter-dependence. This modulus is found in the diameter of thecolumn, and the standard of proportion which is based upon itis called a
. A history of art in ancient Egypt . Fig. 66.—Ramesseum, Thebes. {Description deVEgypte, t. ii., pi. 28.) The proportional combinations of these elements are such thatthey cannot be methodically classified, and in this the architectureof Egypt is distinguished from that which we call classic. In Greek I02 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. art there is a modulus the quantitative relationof forms to each other, and fixes a mutual and invariable inter-dependence. This modulus is found in the diameter of thecolumn, and the standard of proportion which is based upon itis called a canon. In Egypt, as in other countries, there musthave been a certain connection between the diameter of a columnand its height, but there was no approach to that rigid andimmutable law which had its effect upon every detail of a Greektemple. The modulus, in Egyptian art, was used with suchfreedom, and gave rise to such varied proportions, that we may saythat no canon existed. The elementary forms of an Egyptian
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