A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Charles Chipiez Georges Perrot
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Royal octavo, [25cm/10in], full gilt pictorial Martini olive cloth, pp. 444; 434, indexed [end of Vol. II]. Illustrated with five hundred and ninety-eight engravings in the text and fourteen steel and coloured plates. Beautiful!
Chapters (480)
- A HISTORY OF ART IN ANCIENT EGYPT.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- INTRODUCTION.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
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- VI.
- TO THE READER.
- A HISTORY OF ART IN ANCIENT EGYPT CHAPTER I.
- § 1. Egypt's Place in The History of the World.
- § 2. The Valley of the Nile and its Inhabitants.
- § 3. The Great Divisions of Egyptian History.
- § 4. The Constitution of Egyptian Society—Influence of that Constitution upon Monuments of Art.
- § 5. The Egyptian Religion and its Influence upon the Plastic Arts.
- § 6. That Egyptian Art did not escape the Law of Change, and that its History may therefore be written.
- § 7. Of the place held in this work by the monuments of the Memphite period, and of the limits of our inquiry.
- CHAPTER II.
- § 1. Method to be Employed by us in our Study of this Architecture.
- § 2. General Principles of Form.
- § 3. General Principles of Construction.—Materials.
- § 4. Dressed Construction.
- § 5. Compact Construction.
- § 6. Construction by Assemblage.
- § 7. Decoration.
- CHAPTER III.
- § 1. The Egyptian Belief as to a Future Life and its Influence upon their Sepulchral Architecture.
- § 2. The Tomb under the Ancient Empire.
- THE MASTABAS OF THE NECROPOLIS OF MEMPHIS.
- THE PYRAMIDS.
- § 3. The Tomb under the Middle Empire.
- § 4. The Tomb under the New Empire.
- CHAPTER IV.
- § 1. The Temple under the Ancient Empire.
- § 2. The Temple under the Middle Empire.
- § 3. The Temple under the New Empire.
- § 4. General Characteristics of the Egyptian Temple.
- FOOTNOTES:
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