Evolution in Art: As Illustrated By the Life-Histories of Designs

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Evolution in Art: As Illustrated By the Life-Histories of Designs
Alfred C Alfred Cort Haddon
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explanation of this fact. The Egyptian pattern was phyllo- morphic from the beginning, originating in symbolism it was primitively, a realistic representation of an erect water- plant.
Maspero says the decoration of each part of the Egyptian temple was in consonance with its position. The lower parts of the walls were adorned with long stems of lotus or papy- rus — bouquets of water-plants emerging from the water.
This then is the solution of the difficulty. The Egyp- tian anthemion, derived fr
...om plants emerging from the water, has as a rule no connecting strand. The Assyrian variety, derived from a tassel-skeuomorph, is never without its looped base line, is primarily pendant, and consists in the earliest stage of plants that are non-aquatic.
The rosette (Plate VIII., Figs. 4, 8, 10) is usually stated to be an essentially Mesopotamian device, but it is scattered up and down in Egyptian and Mediterranean art. (Figs. 74, 78, 79, 84.) It may.be characteristic of Assyria, but it is by no means peculiar to it.


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