New York. Metropolitan musuem of art · New York [The Gilliss press · leaf 82
he most finished work that Egypt ever produced,in studying Middle Kingdom art, one is struck first ofall by its surprisingly close adherence to Old Kingdomtradition. After a lapse of four centuries, the greater 50 THE FOURTH AND FIFTH ROOMS part of which time was, from an artistic standpoint,barren… … their own. In the tenth dynasty a school of Hera-cleopolitan artists did actually make tentative effortstoward breaking away from tradition, but in the warsthat put an end to their dynasty they too were over-whelmed, and we hear of them no more. The eleventhand twelfth dynasty artists, on the other…
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