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The Arts and Crafts of Ancient Egypt
W. M. Flinders Petrie
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Arts and Crafts of Ancient Egypt CHAPTER ITHE CHARACTER OF EGYPTIAN ART
The art of a country, like the character of the inhabitants, belongs to the nature of the land. The climate, the scenery, the contrasts of each country, all clothe the artistic impulse as diversely as they clothe the people themselves. A burly, florid Teuton in his furs and jewellery, and a lithe brown Indian in his waist-cloth, would each look entirely absurd in the other’s dress. There is no question of which dress is intrinsically the best in the world; each is relatively the best for its own conditions, and each is out of place in other conditions. So it is with art: it is the expression of thought and feeling in[2] harmony with its own conditions. The only bad . . . Read More
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The book discusses a lot of arts and tools to work in the industries in Egypt, but in ancient history only in pharaonic history.