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• catalog abstract "The painted and relief-cut walls of ancient Egyptian tombs and temples record an amazing continuity of customs and beliefs over nearly 3,000 years. Even the artistic style of the scenes seems unchanging from century to century, but this appearance is deceptive. In this pioneering work, Gay Robins offers convincing evidence, based on a study of Egyptian usage of grid systems and proportions, that innovation and stylistic variation played a significant role in ancient Egyptian art. Robins provides a comprehensive account of the squared grid systems used by ancient Egyptian artists to achieve acceptable proportions for standing, sitting, and kneeling human figures. She traces the grid system from its Old Kingdom origins as a system of guide lines through its development in the Middle Kingdom and continued employment into the Late and Ptolemaic periods. She is the first author to explore its use with female figures to reflect the actual physical differences between women and men. From this investigation, Robins offers the first chronological account of variations in the proportions of male and female figures - an important component of style - from the Early Dynastic Period to the Ptolemaic Period. Her study includes a detailed account of the Amarna canon of proportions, which she discovered, that accompanied the revolutionary stylistic changes instituted by the heretic king Akhenaton. She also considers for the first time how, in general, the use of a grid system influenced composition as a whole. Numerous line drawings of paintings and reliefs with superimposed grids, either derived from actual grid traces surviving on monuments, or calculated according to the systems used by the Egyptians themselves, illustrate the text. . Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art uniquely reveals some of the principles and practices of Egyptian art that are essential to its proper understanding by both interested lay persons and professional Egyptologists and art historians. It will be impossible for any future study of Egyptian art to ignore the findings of this book.".
• catalog contributor b7150737.
• catalog contributor b7150738.
• catalog created "1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
• catalog description ". Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art uniquely reveals some of the principles and practices of Egyptian art that are essential to its proper understanding by both interested lay persons and professional Egyptologists and art historians. It will be impossible for any future study of Egyptian art to ignore the findings of this book.".
• catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. Previous Work on the Grid and Proportions -- 3. Methods -- 4. Proportions in the Old and Middle Kingdoms -- 5. Proportions in the New Kingdom -- 6. Changes in the Amarna Period -- 7. The Late Period and After -- 8. Composition and the Grid -- 9. Nonhuman Elements and the Grid -- 10. Changing Proportions and Style.".
• catalog description "From this investigation, Robins offers the first chronological account of variations in the proportions of male and female figures - an important component of style - from the Early Dynastic Period to the Ptolemaic Period. Her study includes a detailed account of the Amarna canon of proportions, which she discovered, that accompanied the revolutionary stylistic changes instituted by the heretic king Akhenaton.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-278) and index.".
• catalog description "Robins provides a comprehensive account of the squared grid systems used by ancient Egyptian artists to achieve acceptable proportions for standing, sitting, and kneeling human figures. She traces the grid system from its Old Kingdom origins as a system of guide lines through its development in the Middle Kingdom and continued employment into the Late and Ptolemaic periods. She is the first author to explore its use with female figures to reflect the actual physical differences between women and men.".
• catalog description "She also considers for the first time how, in general, the use of a grid system influenced composition as a whole. Numerous line drawings of paintings and reliefs with superimposed grids, either derived from actual grid traces surviving on monuments, or calculated according to the systems used by the Egyptians themselves, illustrate the text.".
• catalog description "The painted and relief-cut walls of ancient Egyptian tombs and temples record an amazing continuity of customs and beliefs over nearly 3,000 years. Even the artistic style of the scenes seems unchanging from century to century, but this appearance is deceptive. In this pioneering work, Gay Robins offers convincing evidence, based on a study of Egyptian usage of grid systems and proportions, that innovation and stylistic variation played a significant role in ancient Egyptian art.".
• catalog extent "x, 283 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Proportion and style in ancient Egyptian art.".
• catalog identifier "029277060X (acid-free paper)".
• catalog identifier "0292770642 (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Proportion and style in ancient Egyptian art.".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Austin : University of Texas Press,".
• catalog relation "Proportion and style in ancient Egyptian art.".
• catalog spatial "Egypt.".
• catalog subject "709/.32 20".
• catalog subject "Art, Ancient Egypt.".
• catalog subject "Art, Egyptian.".
• catalog subject "Composition (Art)".
• catalog subject "N5350 .R65 1994".
• catalog subject "Proportion (Art)".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. Previous Work on the Grid and Proportions -- 3. Methods -- 4. Proportions in the Old and Middle Kingdoms -- 5. Proportions in the New Kingdom -- 6. Changes in the Amarna Period -- 7. The Late Period and After -- 8. Composition and the Grid -- 9. Nonhuman Elements and the Grid -- 10. Changing Proportions and Style.".
• catalog title "Proportion and style in ancient Egyptian art / by Gay Robins ; drawings by Ann S. Fowler.".
• catalog type "text".