The Canonical Tradition in Ancient Egyptian Art

Gay Robins · Whitney M. Davis

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Ancient Egypt and Archaeology Classical Antiquity Studies Visual Culture and Art Theory

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List of illustrations Preface 1. Introduction 2. The canonical representation of figures and groups 3. Variability, covention, and laws 4. The order of iconography 5. Academic production 6. The emergence of canonical conventions 7. The explanation of invariance: toward a history of the authority of the canonical image Notes List of abbreviations References Index.

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