The art of ancient Egypt /
Gay Robins.
- Revised edition
- 271 pages : illustrations (chiefly colored), maps ; 25 x 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-266) and index.
Chronology -- Understanding ancient Egyptian art -- Origins : the Early Dynastic Period -- The first flowering : the Old Kingdom (I) -- A golden age : the Old Kingdom (II) -- Diversity in disunity : the first intermediate period -- Return to the heights : the Middle Kingdom (I) -- Change and collapse : the Middle Kingdom (II) -- A new momentum : the New Kingdom (I) : Ahmose to Amenhotep III -- The great heresy : the New Kingdom (II) : the Amarna Period and its aftermath -- The glories of empire : the New Kingdom (III) -- Fragmentation and new directions : the Third Intermediate Period -- Looking to the past : the Late Period (I) -- The final flowering : the Late Period (II) and Ptolemaic Period -- Epilogue.
An illustrated history of over 3,000 years of Egyptian artwork arranged chronologically from the early dynastic period to the Ptolemaic period.