Inside Out Library · Explore

A history of art in ancient Egypt (1883)

Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 166

An illustration from A history of art in ancient Egypt, 1883, leaf 166
ts full and glorious past that Egyptian society found the ideal towhich it clung in spite of all obstacles and misfortunes. Its gazewas turned backwards towards those early sovereigns who seemedtransfigured by distance, but whose presence in the memory keptalive the perpetual worship which had been… … Fig. 53.—Sculptoi- carving a statue, Thebes. (Champollion, pi. 180.) equally true in respect to art. Each of those dynasties towhich Egypt owed its political restoration, set themselves torepair the temples which had been destroyed, and to replaceupon their pedestals the statues of gods or…

Art -- Egypt History · Egypt -- Antiquities

Internet Archive · University of Toronto, Robarts Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from A history of art in ancient Egypt

More like this