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The Elgin and Phigaleian Marbles of the Classical Ages in the British Museum Volume 1 book

The Elgin and Phigaleian Marbles of the Classical Ages in the British Museum Volume 1 book

The Elgin and Phigaleian Marbles of the Classical Ages in the British Museum Volume 1 by British Museum
The Elgin and Phigaleian Marbles of the Classical Ages in the British Museum Volume 1
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Author: British Museum
Number of Pages: 56 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781236228321
Download Link: The Elgin and Phigaleian Marbles of the Classical Ages in the British Museum Volume 1
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: ...about the time of Hadrian. Subsequent to this, Winkelman extended the first of his periods to the establishment of the Greeks under Alexander the Great and his successors. The student who examines Egyptian sculpture with attention, will probably acquiesce in this last division. Plato, who flourished about a hundred and thirty years after Cambyses, in his Dialogue 'de Legibus, ' expressly states, that in painting and the other imitative arts the Egyptians had made no change; their productions were neither more beautiful nor worse than in the remotest ages. This passage ia PUtonis Opera. De Leg. lib. ii. edit. Steph. torn. ii. p. 65$, d. c Plato's words are, "If you observe, therefore, you wilt of itself evidence, that the more subdivided periods of Fea and Millin are chimerical. Where works are all in the same style, art will not admit of epochs. The constitution of the Egyptian government required every man's profession or trade to be hereditary; and the hierarchy, dreading innovation, limited, even the exertions of art to given forms. Taste and invention were thus excluded; ambition in the artist was kept down; and sculpture itself, as we have just read, remained for ages unchanged in its fashion. Herodotus informs us, that the Egyptians were the first people who erected altars, shrines, and temples to the gods, and that none before them ever carved the figures of animals in stone. The great number and variety of Egyptian sculptures remaining, from the most rude to the most perfect, give us reason to believe that we have specimens from almost the earliest to the latest of their productions. For statues, and other fragments of the colossal and heroic size, the collections of Egyptian sculpture at the British Museum, and the Royal Egyptian Museum at Turi...

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