Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . which afterwards characterised all their exertions inthe sphere of art, and endowed with a love of life and naturewhich they zealously manifested in the earliest products of theirimagination. An attempt to gather a history of Egyptian art from the in- 158 BIST0R1 OF ART. format - toe various dynasties of the Egyptian mouarchs lias led to the following results, which, however, may bemuch Bimplifiedor modified by future discoveries. The first periodof tie art closes with the sixth dynasty, and
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . which afterwards characterised all their exertions inthe sphere of art, and endowed with a love of life and naturewhich they zealously manifested in the earliest products of theirimagination. An attempt to gather a history of Egyptian art from the in- 158 BIST0R1 OF ART. format - toe various dynasties of the Egyptian mouarchs lias led to the following results, which, however, may bemuch Bimplifiedor modified by future discoveries. The first periodof tie art closes with the sixth dynasty, and the monuments of Memphis are the most important,the onlj structures of the early dynasties. Some of these(such as the pyramid of Oochome p. 382 i are supposed to date asfar back as the time of the fourth king ; and there is reason to believethat they were originally built of sun-dried bricks encrusted withinstead of, as subsequently, in solid stone. This would alsoaccount tor the mode of construction observed in the stone pyramids,which consist of repeated incrustations of tapering courses of ina-.
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