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Art in Egypt

Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · 1912 · London : William Heinemann · 18 pictures

Art in Egypt is a general survey of ancient Egyptian art by the French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero, published in London by William Heinemann in 1912 for a general reader. Its photographs of statues and temple reliefs show standing figures in frontal, stiff poses with hieroglyphic columns, offering a designer examples of formal, symmetrical composition and carved stone form.

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