Egyptian Decorative Art : A Course of Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution
Cambridge University Press
Egyptian Decorative ArtA Course of Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution\nAuthor(s): William Matthew Flinders Petrie\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108065801, 978-1108065801\nSynopsis\nAmong the leading Egyptologists of his day, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie [tel] excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. He published these carefully illustrated lectures in 1895. Exploring the ancient Egyptians' passion for decoration, he demonstrates his view that the elaborate use of hieroglyphs and design 'made the Egyptian the father of the world's ornament'. Petrie describes and illustrates the four main areas of decoration: the geometrical use of lines, spirals and curves; the representation of natural images such as feathers and flowers; the existence of structural patterns resulting from ancient techniques of building or manufacture; and the use of symbolic em.
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