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Title: Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884
Subjects: Art, Ancient Archaeology
Publisher: London, Bell and Daldy
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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k, blue, red, green,and yellow. These are always kept distinct, and never blended.Of blue, they used both a darker and a lighter shade. Eed was usedto represent the human flesh. Most objects in Egyptian paintinghad a distinct and conventional colour. The Egyptian colours havebeen analyzed by Professor John of Berlin. All the blues appearto be oxides of copper, with a small intermixture of iron; the resultof the analysis never showed any cobalt in any of the blues. The PAINTING. 211 reds may be divided into brown reds, and brick-coloured reds, andare composed of a brown-red oxide of iron mixed with lime. Thegreens are a mixture of a yellow vegetable pigment with a copperblue. The blueish-green colour sometimes observed on Egyptianantiquities is a faded copper-blue. The yellows appear to bevegetable colours; they are often very pure, and of a bright sulphurcolour. The blacks might be from wine lees, burnt pitch, charcoal,or soot. The whites were generally, no doubt, preparations of lime
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AN AKTIST SEATED. ,or gypsum. Madder also appears to have been used, at least forthe reddish coloured dye of the mummy cloths. These colours wereused on the hardest and softest stones, on wood, linen, and papyrus.The sculptures of the most ancient temples were coloured. Thetombs of the kings exhibit endless paintings on their walls. Thres p 2 212 HANDBOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGY. classes of paintings have been discovered in Egypt; those on thewalls, those on the cases and cloths of mummies, and those onpapyrus rolls. The coloured bas-reliefs may be classed among thepaintings. The Egyptians painted detached statues also, examplesof which will be found in the British Museum. No 31 has receivedseveral coats of paint. They painted also architectural decorationsand columns. Egyptian painting was imbued with one commoncharacter, and the same conventional style always prevailed. Itwas not an imitation of nature, but merely the harmonious com-bination of certain hues, which they well understood, as Si

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