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The arts and crafts of ancient Egypt (1909)

Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir, 1853-1942 · London, Edinburgh, T. N. Foulis · leaf 38

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(fig. 51); the slates are rather later,reaching down to the beginning of the first dynasty;and the figures in the round (19 to 22) show whata living and powerful art had suddenly sprung upand was developed under the early kings. Thesame growth is seen in the advance of glazing forimportant… … 3. Prehistoric 5. Old Kingdom (IV) 4. Earliest dynastic 6. Middle Kingdom (XII) THE PERIODS AND SCHOOLS preservation by man of a regular record of his pastacts. This new growth of art rejoiced in its fresh foundpowers. It searched for the truth, it carefully ob-served anatomy, and—like a learner—it…

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