Identifier: historyofartinan01perruoft (find matches)
Title: A history of art in ancient Egypt
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914 Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901 Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918
Subjects: Art -- Egypt History Egypt -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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ch we find in the tomb of Ti, it would still becomparatively small and unimportant beside the colossal masswhich overshadowed it, and to which it belonged. The dis-proportion is easily explained. When the pyramids were built,the workman, the actual mason, had little more to learn. Hewas a thorough master of the dressing and fixing of stone andother materials ; but, on the other hand, the art of architecturewas yet in its infancy. It had no suspicion of those rich andvaried effects which the later Egyptians were to obtain by themajesty of their orders and the variety of their capitals. It wasnot till much later that it learnt to raise the pylon before thesacred inclosures, to throw solemn colonnades about their courts,and to greet the visitor to the temples with long naves clothedin all the glory of colour. Two periods of national renascence, in the thirteenth andeighteenth dynasties, had to intervene before these marvels couldbe realized. The earlier of these two periods is only known
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