A History Of Art In Ancient Egypt, (Vol 1 of 2)

About this eBook

Author

Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901

Title

A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Credits

Produced by Albert László, Matthew Wheaton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

N: Fine Arts

Subject

Art -- Egypt -- History

Category

Text

eBook-No.

40144

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40144

Release Date

July 5, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A HISTORY OF ART IN ANCIENT EGYPT.
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
5. 5.INTRODUCTION. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI.
6. 6.TO THE READER.
7. 7.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.
8. 8.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.
9. 9.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.
10. 10.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.
11. 11.FOOTNOTES:

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