Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 123
FIG. I><9. —PAINTED DKrORATION OF APRIVATE HOUSE (After Petrie). ART IN EGYPT those homogeneous surfaces which mastabas built of blocksof dressed limestone afforded him. But the brush worked … KKi. 1^0.—WAR DANCE (After Champollion). with ease where the chisel would have got mediocre resultsor have failed entirely; a picture without a foundation inrelief was also more quickly executed and cheaper. Wecan understand, therefore, why the Thebans and Heracleo-politans, people of modest means,…
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