A History of Art in Ancient Egypt (1&2)
Charles Chipiez, Georges Perrot
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Kunstgeschichte
Beschreibung
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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French archaeologists perspectives, hieroglyphic art techniques, historical art examination, Nile Valley sculptures, ancient art evolution, Pericles to Aurelius period, Egyptian civilization studies, Ancient Egyptian art, Egyptian religious symbolism, archaeological art history