Egyptian decorative art

_SOURCES OF DECORATION_ PAGE EGYPTIAN TASTE FOR DECORATION 1 DECORATIVE WRITING OF HIEROGLYPHS 3 ORIGIN OF PATTERNS 5 PROBABILITY OF COPYING 6 GEOMETRICAL ORNAMENT 9 NATURAL ORN...

THE LINE AND ZIGZAG 12 THE SPOT 15 THE WAVE 16 THE SPIRAL 17 THE CONTINUOUS SPIRAL 21 SPIRAL SURFACE PATTERNS 28 QUADRUPLE SPIRALS 31 FRETS 35 GREEK SPIRALS 38 SPIRAL BORDERS 40...

FEATHERS 50 ROSETTES 56 DISC AND SPOT PATTERNS 60 LOTUS FLOWER 62 LOTUS BORDERS 64 LOTUS PLANT 66 LOTUS DEVELOPMENT 68 LOTUS, ASSYRIAN AND GREEK 72 LOTUS WITH PENDANT 73 PAPYRUS...

THE URAEUS 107 THE DISC AND WINGS 108 THE HORNS 110 THE VULTURE 111 THE SCARAB 111 THE LION 112 THE GODDESS MAAT 114 THE GODDESS HATHOR 114 THE GOD BES 115 HIEROGLYPH SYMBOLS 11...

In dealing with the subject of decorative art in Egypt, it is needful to begin by setting some bounds to a study which might be made to embrace almost every example of ancient w...

One of the simplest and the earliest kinds of ornament that we find is the zigzag line, which occurs on the oldest tombs, 4000 B.C. So simple is this, that it might be supposed...

Though it might be supposed that the imitation of natural forms would be the earliest form of decoration, yet this is not the case. On the contrary, we find the geometrical form...

In the persistence of certain forms which were the direct result of the structure of a building or object, we have a very considerable source of decoration. In Greek architectur...

The Egyptian who expressed all his thoughts by a symbolical writing, full of determinatives, was naturally much given to symbolism in his decoration. Not, however, that all his...