Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916, Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford, 1831-1892 · New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons; London, H. Grevel & Company · leaf 245
PAINTING AND SCULPTURE. 2 29 artists had no fine examples before them. At Thebes, at Memphis, at Abydos, at Tanis, in those towns of the Delta where the court habitually resided, and even at Aboo Simbel and Bayt-el-Waly, the sculptors of Rameses II. yield nothing in point of excellence to those of… … completed the ruin of Thebes, and the school which had produced so many masterpieces perished miserably. The Renaissance did not dawn till near the end of the Ethiopian Dynasty, some three hundred years later. The over-praised statue of Queen Ameniritis 'f (fig. * Ameniritis, daughter of an…
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