n our choice ofexamples for study, and that for two reasons. The first is, that at the latter period the evolution of Egyptianart was complete, it had created all that it could and had becomea slave to its own past. Disposing under the Ptolemies ofall the resources of a great empire, it indeed… … Fig. 57.-—Ti, with his wife and son. and painting we can easily see that it abandoned itself to merecopying, to the repetition of a lesson learnt by rote. Whateverhad to be done, was done in accordance with fixed tradition, andone monument only differed from another in the amount of careand manual…
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