. Teacher's manual for freehand drawing in intermediate schools. reatment is severe, showing great firmness andrigidity of line. Every thing is colored. Egyptianart was at its best about three thousand years the preceding page are given five specimens. 1. This is the wave scroll, symbolic of the waves of theNile. The added detail is from the papynis. 2. This is a moulding, or border, made from the flowerand bud of the lotus, the Egyptian symbol of renewed life. 3. This is another variety of border, or moulding, madefrom the flower of the lotus. 4. This is a pattern for the covering of s
. Teacher's manual for freehand drawing in intermediate schools. reatment is severe, showing great firmness andrigidity of line. Every thing is colored. Egyptianart was at its best about three thousand years the preceding page are given five specimens. 1. This is the wave scroll, symbolic of the waves of theNile. The added detail is from the papynis. 2. This is a moulding, or border, made from the flowerand bud of the lotus, the Egyptian symbol of renewed life. 3. This is another variety of border, or moulding, madefrom the flower of the lotus. 4. This is a pattern for the covering of sui-face. It will beseen that it can be extended in all directions. The four preceding specimens are from mummy cases andthe walls of tombs, which were always profusely decorated. 5. This is an Egyptian capital, or top of a column, from atemple near Thebes. The papyrus-flower furnishes the mo-tive. Compare it with the Greek and Eoman capitals whichfollow. In the high school these forms are to be drawn,and then done in color, just as they were done by GREEK. 233. 234 TEACHERS MANUAL. the Egyptians. For such work the publishers ofthis book have already prepared large colored plates,which are in use where sufficient preliminary pro-gress has been made in drawing. Similar plateshave been prepared for other gieat stales of decora-tive art. Thus the learner is enabled to contrastone style with another. Page of Greek Forms. On the preceding page are given six varieties ofGreek ornament. A glance will show that the treat-ment is quite different from the Egyptian. Greekart was at its best about three hundred years 1. This is an ecliiniis moulding, sometimes called the eggand dart. It was usTially sculptured. The curves are ellip-tical and flat. Compare with the Eoman. 2. This is part of a sculptured moulding from the Templeof Nemesis at Ehamnus. The lower part of the moulding iscalled the astragal, and sometimes the hucklehone series. 3. This anthemion (flower) rosette is from the P
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