Robins, Gay.

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.

9780674030657 (alk. paper) 0674030656 (alk. paper)

2008004264


Art, Egyptian.
Art, Ancient--Egypt.

N5350 / .R63 2008

709.32