A history of art in ancient Egypt, Vol. I (of 2)
Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez
A history of art in ancient Egypt, Vol. I (of 2)
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A HISTORY OF ART IN ANCIENT EGYPT.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
INTRODUCTION.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
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.
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