Category: History - Ancient
METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION, THE ORDERS, SECONDARY FORMS. § 1. An Analysis of Architectural Forms necessary § 2. Materials § 3. Construction § 4. The Arch § 5. The Pier and Column.--The Egyptian Orders Their Origin General Types of Supports § 6. The Ordonnance of Egyptian Colonnad...
METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION, THE ORDERS, SECONDARY FORMS. § 1. An Analysis of Architectural Forms necessary § 2. Materials § 3. Construction § 4. The Arch § 5. The Pier and Column.-...
3. CHAPTER III.SCULPTURE. § 1. The Origin of Statue-making § 2. Sculpture under the Ancient Empire § 3. Sculpture under the First Theban Empire § 4. Sculpture under the Second Theban Empire §...
4. CHAPTER IV.5. CHAPTER V.6. CHAPTER VI.COLOURED PLATES. Thebes, the Pavilion of Medinet-Abou, restored Portico in the temple of Medinet-Abou, restored Rahotep and Nefert, Boulak Museum The _Scribe_, Louvre The Queen...
7. CHAPTER I.We have seen that sepulchral and religious architecture are represented in Egypt by numerous and well preserved monuments. It is not so in the case of civil and military archite...
8. CHAPTER II.We have now described the tomb, the temple, and the house in ancient Egypt. We have attempted to define the character of their architecture, and to show how its forms were deter...
9. part i., pl. 81.In this comparison between the different forms which were successively given to the Egyptian column, we might, if we had chosen, have included other varieties; and yet we do not...
10. CHAPTER III.The art of imitating living forms by means of sculpture was no less ancient in Egypt than architecture. We do not mean to say that it already existed in those remote ages when t...
11. CHAPTER IV.Most of our observations upon Egyptian sculpture are applicable to the sister art of painting. The conventions which form the characteristic originality of the Egyptian style we...
12. CHAPTER V.The expression, _industrial art_, has sometimes been severely criticised, but yet it answers to a real distinction founded upon the nature of things, and we do not see that it c...
13. part ii. 1877.A complete idea of Egyptian jewelry and work in the precious metals cannot be given without colour; without its assistance the brilliance, softened into completest harmony by th...
14. CHAPTER VI.In the study which we have now almost completed, we have made no attempt to reconstitute the history of Egypt. We are without the qualifications necessary for such a task. We do...
15. i. 69;Amen-Ra, may be identified with Indra, i. 50, 63; hardly mentioned earlier than the eleventh dynasty, 68, 113; offerings to him as master of Karnak, 155, 268; the chief person o...
16. ii. 63, 76, 107, 126, 170, 227, 235, 278;Pottery; potter's wheel in use during the Ancient Empire, ii. 367; Dr. Birch's illustrations, 367; _aryballus_, 368; "Egyptian porcelain," 369; should be Egyptian faience, _id._...
17. ii. 56;Vyse, Colonel Howard, his great work upon the Pyramids, i. 195; his discoveries in _do._, 221; his discovery of the Sarcophagus of Mycerinus, 234; his discovery and exploration...
18. ii. 33, 38, 72;"We have already noticed at some length the original French edition of the important work of 'Raphael, his Life, Works, and Times,' of M. Muntz, the Librarian of the École des B...