A manual of ancient sculpture, Egyptian - Assyrian - Greek - Roman (1886)
Redford, George, d. 1895 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 58
f equallength, says tliat he himselftested this with the statues atKarnac, and found that they weredivisible according to the hori-zontal lines upon those in thetemple of Ombos into about 22J. Fig. 30.—Egyptian Figure holdingA Key. Divided ly lines into 19 equal parts fromthe sole of the foot to… … D 2 86 THE MEDIUS FINGER THE UNIT. M. Blanc concludes that the ancient canon was forgotten. Hepoints out that the length of the head and face from chin tocrown varies with age, that the nose being formed of bone andcartilage cannot be invariable, and its point of juncture withthe forehead is not…
Sculpture, Ancient
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