The Canonical Tradition in Ancient Egyptian Art (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism)

From the beginning of Egyptian dynastic history (c. 3000 BC), Egyptian artists worked within a set of specific rules for image making. The system was established in order to depict and to justify the ambitions of the ancient Egyptian elite, and was so successful that virtually no other forms of image making survive in the archaeological record. This book describes the rules for making correct canonical images at the levels of technique and subject matter, and explores the way in which these rules were expressed and transmitted from artist to artist over 3,000 years.Davis, Whitney is the author of 'The Canonical Tradition in Ancient Egyptian Art (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism)', published 1990 under ISBN 9780521365901 and ISBN 0521365902.