of decadence and renascence which, following oneupon the other, exhausted in the end the genius of the race ? Let us take a single example—the most striking of all. Afterthe sixth dynasty all documents cease ; they are absoluteh Change Observable in Egyptian Art. /J wanting until tlie eleventli,… … Fig. 47.—Statue from the Ancient Empire, in limestone. Boulak. Drawn by Bomgoin. When historians, hving as long after our nineteenth century aswe do after the epochs of Memphite and Theban supremacy inEgypt, come to treat the history of the past, they will perhaps M. Melchoir de Vogue, C/iez ks…
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