
A History of Art in Ancient Egypt (1&2)
Illustrated EditionBy Georges Perrot, Charles ChipiezLength24h 42m
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A History of Art in Ancient Egypt in two volumes is a study of Egyptian arts and of their connection with the national religion and civilization written by French archeologists and historians Georges Perrot and Charles Chipiez. The aim of the work was to trace the course of the great evolution which culminated in the age of Pericles and came to an end in that of Marcus Aurelius. That evolution forms a complete entirety – an unbroken chain of cause and effect uniting the two eras. Using carefully selected examples authors prove that the art of the Egyptians went through the same process of development as those of other nationalities, earlier and later ones, and that the unique quality of the sculptures and paintings of the Nile Valley was a persistent affinity to simplification, which comes in part from the habit created by writing the hieroglyphic and in part from the materials used.
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1A History of Art in Ancient Egypt (1&2)
43§ 4. Military Architecture.
2INTRODUCTION.
44CHAPTER II.
3I.
45§ 1. An Analysis of Architectural Forms necessary.
4II.
46§ 2. Materials.
5III.
47§ 3. Construction.
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6IV.
48§ 4. The Arch.
7V.
49§ 5 The Pier and Column.—The Egyptian Orders.
8VI.
50THEIR ORIGIN.
9TO THE READER.
51GENERAL TYPES OF SUPPORTS.
10CHAPTER I.
52§ 6. The Ordonnance of Egyptian Colonnades.
11§ 1. Egypt's Place in The History of the World.
53§ 7. Monumental Details.
12§ 2. The Valley of the Nile and its Inhabitants.
54§ 8. Doors and Windows.
13§ 3. The Great Divisions of Egyptian History.
55Doors.
14§ 4. The Constitution of Egyptian Society—Influence of that Constitution upon Monuments of Art.
56Windows
15§ 5. The Egyptian Religion and its Influence upon the Plastic Arts.
57§ 9. The Illumination of the Temples.
16§ 6. That Egyptian Art did not escape the Law of Change, and that its History may therefore be written.
58§ 10. The Obelisks.
17§ 7. Of the place held in this work by the monuments of the Memphite period, and of the limits of our inquiry.
59§ 11. The Profession of Architect.
18CHAPTER II.
60CHAPTER III.
19§ 1. Method to be Employed by us in our Study of this Architecture.
61§ 1. The Origin of Statue-making.
20§ 2. General Principles of Form.
62§ 2. Sculpture under the Ancient Empire.
21§ 3. General Principles of Construction.—Materials.
63§ 3. Sculpture under the First Theban Empire.
22§ 4. Dressed Construction.
64§ 4. Sculpture under the Second Theban Empire.
23§ 5. Compact Construction.
65§ 5. The Art of the Saite Period.
24§ 6. Construction by Assemblage.
66§ 6. The Principal Themes of Egyptian Sculpture.
25§ 7. Decoration.
67§ 7. The Technique of the Bas-reliefs.
26CHAPTER III.
68§ 8. Gems.
27§ 1. The Egyptian Belief as to a Future Life and its Influence upon their Sepulchral Architecture.
69§ 9. The Principal Conventions in Egyptian Sculpture.
28§ 2. The Tomb under the Ancient Empire.
70§ 10. The General Characteristics of the Egyptian Style.
29THE MASTABAS OF THE NECROPOLIS OF MEMPHIS.
71CHAPTER IV.
30THE PYRAMIDS.
72§ 1. Technical Processes.
31§ 3. The Tomb under the Middle Empire.
73§ 2. The Figure.
32§ 4. The Tomb under the New Empire.
74§ 3. Caricature.
33CHAPTER IV.
75§ 4. Ornament.
34§ 1. The Temple under the Ancient Empire.
76CHAPTER V.
35§ 2. The Temple under the Middle Empire.
77§ 1. Definition and Characteristics of Industrial Art.
36§ 3. The Temple under the New Empire.
78§ 2. Glass and Pottery.
37§ 4. General Characteristics of the Egyptian Temple.
79§ 3. Metal-work and Jewelry.
38FOOTNOTES:
80§ 4. Woodwork.
39CHAPTER I.
81§ 5. The Commerce of Egypt.
40§ 1.—The Graphic Processes employed by the Egyptians in their representations of Buildings.
82CHAPTER VI.
41§ 2. The Palace.
83APPENDIX.
42§ 3.—The Egyptian House.
84FOOTNOTES: