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Saturday, July 2, 2011

Smith: History of Egyptian Sculpture and Painting in the OK


William Stevenson Smith, 
A History of Egyptian Sculpture and
Painting in the Old Kingdom, 2nd ed., 
London / Boston, 1949. -
xv, 422 pp., 60 pls., 2 col. pls. - pdf-file (97.1 MB) 
http://www.gizapyramids.org/pdf%20library/smith_hespok.pdf 
"In 1936 the writer was entrusted with the preparation of a survey
of the sculpture and painting found at Giza. This was to form part
of the publication of the excavations at the Pyramids upon which
Dr. George A. Reisner and the members of the Harvard-Boston
Expedition have long been engaged. It was clear at the start that
new evidence from Giza made it necessary to reconsider both the
style and date of sculpture from other Old Kingdom sites. As the
need to refer to comparative material became more and more
obvious the present form of the volume gradually took shape. It
was at the suggestion of Dr. Reisner that the text was finally
expanded into a general history of Old Kingdom art."

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