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Title: Teachers' manual for the Prang course in drawing for graded schools, books 1-6
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Clark, John Spencer Prang Company Hicks Mary D Perry, Walter Scott
Subjects: Drawing -- Study and teaching
Publisher: Boston. Prang educ. co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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any colors, all give Egyptian characteristics. It is said that a fine Oriental ruggives some idea of what Josephs coat of many colors might have been. Orientalfabrics show most wonderfully harmonious color combinations. Egyptian ornament is simple and severe in form and arrangement, but decorativein effect. Color was used abundantly in brilliant masses, not only in the temples,but also in the tombs and on the mummy-cases, which were profusely ornamented.The Egyptians believed in the immortality of the soul, and that the soul would returnto the body after death. Hence they took every means to preserve the body, em-balming it with great care. A scarab (a stone carved or engraved in the form oftheir sacred beetle)was fastened upon the breast, and then the body was swathed in 94 TEACHERS MANUAL. (book III. numerous bandages bearing inscriptions. The mummy was then complete. Thewealthier classes placed the mummy in a wooden case completely covered on the topand sides with painted ornament.
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The scarab typified creation, resurrection or new birth. One signification isgiven as evolution. In the tombs and ruins of temples there are found myriads ofmodels of the beetles, that seem to have been worn as amulets. BOOK HI.) DECORAT/ON. — HISTORIC ORNAMEXT. 95 It will add very much to the interest and value of the lesson to have pictures ofEgyptian scenery and buildings for pupils to examine. Set pupils to looking forillustrations bearing on the subject.* Geographies, general histories and books onOriental travel are likely to help. Explain the reason why we study Egyptian art, —the Egyptian people were highly civilized, after their own fashion, more than fourthousand years ago. They bad learned various arts and sciences long before thepeople of Europe had grown out of savagery. In some respects their ideas of beautywere very different from our ideas to-day; in other respects they were quite equal tothe most cultivated art feeling of the nineteenth century. Directly or indire

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