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DER-EL-BAHRI
fashion-plates. The women are all thin, of a pronounced
Jewish type. Even the goddesses are very smart. The
grandest tomb naturally belonged to Nefretere, the wife of
Rameses the Great; that of Queen Titi, seriously damaged,
appears to be in the manner of Hatshepsut.
Painting in Egypt remained the handmaid of architec-
ture. Under Hatshepsut it had its chance, which perhaps
lasted longer than the temple at Der-el-Bahri allows us to
recognize; but the overpowering tradition of sculpture
cramped it. Sculpture would seem to have played the part
that painting has achieved in our day; and in the New
Kingdom it displayed a marked penchant for the picturesque.
Under the heretic king Amenophis this tendency acquired
a great importance. El Amarna is an incubator of im-
pressionism; subsequently there followed a series of reactions,
as in our own painting.
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fashion-plates. The women are all thin, of a pronounced
Jewish type. Even the goddesses are very smart. The
grandest tomb naturally belonged to Nefretere, the wife of
Rameses the Great; that of Queen Titi, seriously damaged,
appears to be in the manner of Hatshepsut.
Painting in Egypt remained the handmaid of architec-
ture. Under Hatshepsut it had its chance, which perhaps
lasted longer than the temple at Der-el-Bahri allows us to
recognize; but the overpowering tradition of sculpture
cramped it. Sculpture would seem to have played the part
that painting has achieved in our day; and in the New
Kingdom it displayed a marked penchant for the picturesque.
Under the heretic king Amenophis this tendency acquired
a great importance. El Amarna is an incubator of im-
pressionism; subsequently there followed a series of reactions,
as in our own painting.
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