This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...Winkvlmann, i. p. 110. ment. The oldest canon, which dates as Since this has been written, the early as the 3rd Dynasty, reckoned the excellence of Egyptian art in portraiture, proper height of the human figure from and the high state which it had reached the sole of the foot to the crown of the under the earlier ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...Winkvlmann, i. p. 110. ment. The oldest canon, which dates as Since this has been written, the early as the 3rd Dynasty, reckoned the excellence of Egyptian art in portraiture, proper height of the human figure from and the high state which it had reached the sole of the foot to the crown of the under the earlier dynasties, has been head, and the subdivisions were made onedemonstrated by the remarkable statues half or one-third of the foot. A change discovered of the ageofthe.'irdand following took place at the time of the 12th Dynasty, dynasties. The sculptors, indeed, worked dividing the height into eighteen parts, or by a hieratic canon, which varied at square of half the foot. This continued No accidents, arising from the consequences of invasion or from any other cause, were ever capable of changing their fixed reverence for prescribed forms; nor do we find, after the Greek and Roman conquests, that any deviation from established custom was tolerated, or that any innovation was introduced from communication with those foreigners, however superior their art, and however evident its resemblance to the originals which nature daily presented to their eyes. After the accession of the Ptolemies, Greek art became well known in Egypt, and every opportunity was given to their artists to improve from the best models: but no change was effected by this intercourse with the Greeks; and when Adrian wished divine honours to be paid to his favourite Antinous, and statues to be erected to his memory, no form was admitted but that which religious usage had established and Egyptian models prescribed. Though the general character of painting and sculpture continued the same, and a certain conventional mode of representing the human figure was universally adopted througho...
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