The Canonical Tradition in Ancient Egyptian Art

by Whitney Davis

From the beginning of Egyptian dynastic history (c. 3000 BC), Egyptian artists worked within a set of specific rules for image making. The system was established in order to depict and to justify the ambitions of the ancient Egyptian elite, and was so successful that virtually no other forms of image making survive in the archaeological record. This book describes the rules for making correct canonical images at the levels of technique and subject...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521365902
• ISBN13: 9780521365901
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 2.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.8"