Add to ORKGIn this picture we pass to the Twentieth Dynasty, when there still existed careful painters who could do elaborate work, but not without succumbing to the degenerate taste of the times. Here the colours are crude, especially the unpleasant yellow complexion of the goddess and the harsh blue throughout. The tomb of Amenkhopshef was made by Ramesses ill for his son and heir, who, if we may judge from the relative proportions of father and son in this picture, was twelve or thirteen years of age when he died. The king occupies a more important position in the tomb than the boy himself, who appears in the guise of a fan-bearer attending upon his sovereign. Here the goddess 'Isis the great, mistress of the West', leads Ramesses III to her wester...
It is well known that the kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty and onwards possessed mortuary temples fri...
The rites performed at the door of the tomb before the mummy was consigned to its last resting-place...
The scene here represented has parallels in most tombs of all periods, and shows the deceased with h...
With this picture we skip four centuries and embark upon the paintings of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Pl...
Three pictures must suffice to illustrate the new direction given to Egyptian painting by the artist...
From a not long since discovered tomb of a 'Chief of the Altar in the House of Rarmesse', i.e. in th...
This picture exemplifies the best style of painted relief as practiced under the kings of the early ...
Of the three pictures reproduced in this work from the tomb of Userhet, 'High-priest of the spirit (...
This clean-coloured fragment, the subject of which is analogous to that of Plates XIV and XXI-XXIV, ...
The noble from whose tomb this Plate and the next two are taken has not been fortunate enough to hav...
The art of the reign of Tutankhamun is here further illustrated by four pictures from the tomb of Hu...
The gaily painted and well-preserved tomb of Nefretere, the queen of Ramesses II, is here represente...
The tomb of the sculptor Ipy, who lived in the reign of Ramesses II, has yielded us four Plates. Pro...
This and the next three pictures are taken from a single large scene in the tomb of the High-priest ...
FROM the top left comer of a banqueting-scene in four registers, which show some further musicians a...
It is well known that the kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty and onwards possessed mortuary temples fri...
The rites performed at the door of the tomb before the mummy was consigned to its last resting-place...
The scene here represented has parallels in most tombs of all periods, and shows the deceased with h...
With this picture we skip four centuries and embark upon the paintings of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Pl...
Three pictures must suffice to illustrate the new direction given to Egyptian painting by the artist...
From a not long since discovered tomb of a 'Chief of the Altar in the House of Rarmesse', i.e. in th...
This picture exemplifies the best style of painted relief as practiced under the kings of the early ...
Of the three pictures reproduced in this work from the tomb of Userhet, 'High-priest of the spirit (...
This clean-coloured fragment, the subject of which is analogous to that of Plates XIV and XXI-XXIV, ...
The noble from whose tomb this Plate and the next two are taken has not been fortunate enough to hav...
The art of the reign of Tutankhamun is here further illustrated by four pictures from the tomb of Hu...
The gaily painted and well-preserved tomb of Nefretere, the queen of Ramesses II, is here represente...
The tomb of the sculptor Ipy, who lived in the reign of Ramesses II, has yielded us four Plates. Pro...
This and the next three pictures are taken from a single large scene in the tomb of the High-priest ...
FROM the top left comer of a banqueting-scene in four registers, which show some further musicians a...
It is well known that the kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty and onwards possessed mortuary temples fri...
The rites performed at the door of the tomb before the mummy was consigned to its last resting-place...
The scene here represented has parallels in most tombs of all periods, and shows the deceased with h...