The arts and crafts of ancient Egypt (1910) (14596186819)

Identifier: artscraftsofanci1910petr (find matches)
Title: The arts and crafts of ancient Egypt
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir, 1853-1942
Subjects: Industrial arts Art, Egyptian Industries
Publisher: London, Edinburgh : T. N. Foulis
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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e of sunk relief, as fig. 58, was as earlyas the I Vth dynasty, though most of the tomb sculp-tures are in high relief Sunk relief became com-moner in the MiddleKingdom, and almost universalin the New Kingdom. It saved a large amountof labour, and it protected the sculptures from in-jury ; but it is so forcible a convention that it isnever so pleasing as the raised work. The XVIIIth dynasty opens with another revi-val of art, but yet it never reached the levels ofthe earlier ages. The profusion of reliefs of Thebesand other great sites has made the style of theXVIIIth and XlXth dynasties the most familiarto us, but its inferiority to that of the previous pe-riods is more obvious the more it is studied. Thesculptures of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahri are cele-brated, yet the detail in fig. 60 is not rich. Thereis scarcely any modelling of face or muscles, mereflat surfaces sufficing ; there is but little expressionin the features; and the whole effect is flat and 52 MIDDLE KINGDOM RELIEFS
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58. Toilet of princess 59. Senusert I and Ptah NEW KINGDOM RELIEFS