A History of Art in Ancient Egypt from the French of Georges Perrot, Professor in the Faculty of Letters, Paris; Member of the Institute and Charles Chipiez.
Illustrated with Five Hundred and Ninety-Eight Engravings in the Text, and Fourteen Steel and Coloured Plates.
Volume 2
Translated and Edited by Walter Armstrong, B. A., Oxon., author of “Alfred Stevens,” etc.
CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Civil and Military Architecture.
§ 1.--The Graphic Processes employed by the Egyptians in their representations of Buildings.
Chapter 2. Methods of Construction, the Orders, Secondary Forms.
§ 1. An Analysis of Architectural Forms necessary.
§ 2. Materials.
§ 3. Construction.
§ 4. The Arch.
§ 5 The Pier and Column.--The Egyptian Orders.
§ 6. The Ordonnance of Egyptian Colonnades.
§ 7. Monumental Details.
§ 8. Doors and Windows.
§ 9. The Illumination of the Temples.
§ 10. The Obelisks.
§ 11. The Profession of Architect.
Chapter 3. Sculpture.
§ 1. The Origin of Statue-making.
§ 2. Sculpture under the Ancient Empire.
§ 3. Sculpture under the First Theban Empire.
§ 4. Sculpture under the Second Theban Empire.
§ 5. The Art of the Saite Period.
§ 6. The Principal Themes of Egyptian Sculpture.
§ 7. The Technique of the Bas-reliefs.
§ 8. Gems.
§ 9. The Principal Conventions in Egyptian Sculpture.
§ 10. The General Characteristics of the Egyptian Style.
Chapter 4. Painting.
§ 1. Technical Processes.
§ 2. The Figure.
§ 3. Caricature.
§ 4. Ornament.
Chapter 5. The Industrial Arts.
§ 1. Definition and Characteristics of Industrial Art.
§ 2. Glass and Pottery.
§ 3. Metal-work and Jewelry.
§ 4. Woodwork.
§ 5. The Commerce of Egypt.
Chapter 6. The General Characteristics of Egyptian Art, and the Place of Egypt in Art History.
