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

by Georges Perrot

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Contents

1. Preface
2. I
3. II
4. III
5. IV
6. V
7. VI
8. To the Reader
9. § 1. Egypt's Place in The History of the World
10. § 2. The Valley of the Nile and its Inhabitants
11. § 3. The Great Divisions of Egyptian History
12. § 4. The Constitution of Egyptian Society—Influence of that Constitution upon Monuments of Art
13. § 5. The Egyptian Religion and its Influence upon the Plastic Arts
14. § 6. That Egyptian Art did not escape the Law of Change, and that its History may therefore be written
15. § 7. Of the place held in this work by the monuments of the Memphite period, and of the limits of our inquiry
16. § 1. Method to be Employed by us in our Study of this Architecture
17. § 2. General Principles of Form
18. § 3. General Principles of Construction.—Materials
19. § 4. Dressed Construction
20. § 5. Compact Construction
21. § 6. Construction by Assemblage
22. § 7. Decoration
23. § 1. The Egyptian Belief as to a Future Life and its Influence upon their Sepulchral Architecture
24. § 2. The Tomb under the Ancient Empire
25. The Mastabas of the Necropolis of Memphis
26. The Pyramids
27. § 3. The Tomb under the Middle Empire
28. § 4. The Tomb under the New Empire
29. § 1. The Temple under the Ancient Empire
30. § 2. The Temple under the Middle Empire
31. § 3. The Temple under the New Empire
32. § 4. General Characteristics of the Egyptian Temple

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