. The grammar of ornament . pointsof resemblance in the two styles ; notonly is the same mode of representa-tion adopted, but the objects repre-sented are oftentimes so similar, thatit is difficult to believe that the samestyle could have been arrived at by twopeople independently of each other. The mode of representing a river, atree, a besieged city, a group of prison-ers, a battle, a king in his chariot, arealmost identical,—the differences whichexist are only those which would resultfrom the representation of the habits oftwo different people; the art appears tous to be the same. Assyrian
. The grammar of ornament . pointsof resemblance in the two styles ; notonly is the same mode of representa-tion adopted, but the objects repre-sented are oftentimes so similar, thatit is difficult to believe that the samestyle could have been arrived at by twopeople independently of each other. The mode of representing a river, atree, a besieged city, a group of prison-ers, a battle, a king in his chariot, arealmost identical,—the differences whichexist are only those which would resultfrom the representation of the habits oftwo different people; the art appears tous to be the same. Assyrian sculptureseems to be a development of theEgyptian, but, instead of being carriedforward, descending in the scale ofperfection, bearing the same relation tothe Egyptian as the Roman does to theGreek. Egyptian sculpture graduallydeclined from the time of the Pharaohs to that of the Greeks and Romans; the forms, which wereat first flowing and graceful, became coarse and abrupt; the swelling of the limbs, which was at first28. Assyrian.
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