The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 37
de,the second is generally drawn on topof the first. Thus Egyptian composi-tions, whether carved or painted,hardly deserve this name, for theylack any attempt at arrangement andsymmetry; they consist of a medleyof motives, which bear the samerelation to the grouping of Greekart as does the driest… … FIG. 22. EGYPTIAN GROUP IN LIMESTONE. (The Louvre.) only, that of the Sphinx, or lion with ahuman head, has persisted down to our 18 EGYPT, CHALDiEA, AND PERSIA own times (Fig. 23); but we have re-tained, with very sHght modification,the decorative motives borrowed by the
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