The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, Athens. highest reach in the nobly designed human formwith its drapery, as in the Caryatid porch of theErechtheum and the portals of Reims cathedral. Egyptian sculpture, whose first monumentsdate from the fifth millennium , forms, withthat of Chaldea-Assyria, the two tap-roots forsubsequent tradition in Europe. Tomb and tem-ple are responsible for the great mass of Egyp-tian sculptures. Religious belief h
The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, Athens. highest reach in the nobly designed human formwith its drapery, as in the Caryatid porch of theErechtheum and the portals of Reims cathedral. Egyptian sculpture, whose first monumentsdate from the fifth millennium , forms, withthat of Chaldea-Assyria, the two tap-roots forsubsequent tradition in Europe. Tomb and tem-ple are responsible for the great mass of Egyp-tian sculptures. Religious belief held that sur-vival of the ka or spirit after death dependedupon preservation of the body (as a mummy),or failing that, upon provision of a ushabti orsculptured portrait. Scenes from the past andfuture life of the deceased were also sculpturedupon the wall of his tomb. Temples were cov-ered within anil without with scenes from thevictories and consequent offerings to the godmade by a king. The workmanship on some ofthe hardest stones known was superb andachieved only with immense toil, to lessenwhich the statue w-as generalized as much aspossible,
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