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6 HISTORY OP ART. [lECT. I.
muft have contributed to turn the studies of Art into
different channels, and thereby to produce merit of
different kinds. t
It is not our intention at present to notice the
history or the state of Art at large (that we refer to
another division of our work), but merely to trace,
in some kind of order, the history of that style
which our own Arts have adopted.
From the most authentic records of early ages
(the Mosaic history) we learn that a settlement was
formed at Babylon, almost directly as the world be-
came sufficiently peopled to permit the separation of
colonies from the parent state : and we find also that
a very superb undertaking of architecture was
speedily resolved on, and that mankind had great
reason to remember this undertaking by its effects;
all nations and all men being in some manner af-
fected by this enterprise and its issue. From Baby-
lon colonies travelled in search of settlement, and,
among other countries, they early visited and esta-
blished themselves in Egypt.
We are the more interested in the history of Egyp-
tian polity and manners, because much of our Art
is derived from thence, and because we can appeal
to specimens of Egyptian Art, which may direct our
opinions, and guide our researches; whereas all the
productions, and all the contents of Babylon, of
Nineveh, and of the countries around them, have
perished, and have left no memorial by which we
may form a judgment of their merit, or of their
style and manner.
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muft have contributed to turn the studies of Art into
different channels, and thereby to produce merit of
different kinds. t
It is not our intention at present to notice the
history or the state of Art at large (that we refer to
another division of our work), but merely to trace,
in some kind of order, the history of that style
which our own Arts have adopted.
From the most authentic records of early ages
(the Mosaic history) we learn that a settlement was
formed at Babylon, almost directly as the world be-
came sufficiently peopled to permit the separation of
colonies from the parent state : and we find also that
a very superb undertaking of architecture was
speedily resolved on, and that mankind had great
reason to remember this undertaking by its effects;
all nations and all men being in some manner af-
fected by this enterprise and its issue. From Baby-
lon colonies travelled in search of settlement, and,
among other countries, they early visited and esta-
blished themselves in Egypt.
We are the more interested in the history of Egyp-
tian polity and manners, because much of our Art
is derived from thence, and because we can appeal
to specimens of Egyptian Art, which may direct our
opinions, and guide our researches; whereas all the
productions, and all the contents of Babylon, of
Nineveh, and of the countries around them, have
perished, and have left no memorial by which we
may form a judgment of their merit, or of their
style and manner.
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