. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . THE RENAISSANCE OF ART IN EGYPT 359 V unfinished, is pleasing from its greater breadth of style,although such breadth is rarely found in the works ofthis school, which toned down, elongated, and attenuatedthe figure till it often lost in vigour what it gained indistinction. The one point in which the Saite artistsmade a real advance, was in the treatment of the headsof their models. The expression is often refined andidealised as in the case of older works, but occasionallythe portraiture is exact even to coarseness. It was not. MEMPH
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . THE RENAISSANCE OF ART IN EGYPT 359 V unfinished, is pleasing from its greater breadth of style,although such breadth is rarely found in the works ofthis school, which toned down, elongated, and attenuatedthe figure till it often lost in vigour what it gained indistinction. The one point in which the Saite artistsmade a real advance, was in the treatment of the headsof their models. The expression is often refined andidealised as in the case of older works, but occasionallythe portraiture is exact even to coarseness. It was not. MEMPHITE BAS-KELIEF OF THE SAITE EPOCH. the idealised likeness of Montumihalt which the artistwished to portray, but Montumihatt himself, with hislow forehead, his smaU close-set eyes, his thin cheeks,and the deep lines about his nose and mouth. Andbesides this, the wrinkles, the crows feet, the cranialprojections, the shape of ear and neck, are brought outwith minute fidelity. A statue was no longer, as inearlier days, merely a piece of sacred stone, the supportof the divine or human double, in which artistic value 1 Drawn by Boudier, from a heliogravure in Marietta. The bas-reliefwas worked into the masonry of a house in Memphis in the Byzantine period,and it was in order to fit it to the course below that the masons bevelled thelower part of it. 360 THE MEDES AND THE SECOND CHALDEAN EMPIRE was an accessory of no importance and was esteemedonly as a guarantee of resemblance : without losing aughtof its religious significance, a statue henceforward becamea work of art, admired and pr
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