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Art in Egypt (1912)

Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 21

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generations had taught them gradually to bring out the principal lines of their models,to fix their contours, to simplify their reliefs, to co-ordinate their 3 B 2 ART IN EGYPT … FIG. 6.—GROOVED FACADE OF THIMTE TOMBS AND FORTRESSES. (After Garstang;.) movements and their postures. They took pleasure in slow andtranquil gestures; if the nature of their subjects, religious processions, hunting andbattle - scenes , assaultson cities, the pursuit ofenemies, forced them…

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