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A history of art in ancient Egypt (1883)

Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited · leaf 348

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r 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… … VOL, I. L L The Tomb under the New Empire. 259 to us by a few works of sculpture in our museums. We areforced to Quess at its architecture, as we have nothing butdescriptions, which are at once incomplete and exaggerated, toguide our imaginations. The second Theban Empire may be studied under very…

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