CHAPTER IV.
_PAINTING AND SCULPTURE_.
The statues and bas-reliefs which decorated the temples and tombs of Ancient Egypt were for the most part painted.

Coloured stones, such as granite, basalt, diorite, serpentine, and alabaster, sometimes escaped this law of polychrome; but in the case of sandstone, limestone, or wood it was rigorously enforced.

If sometimes we meet with uncoloured monuments in these materials, we may be sure that the paint has been accidentally rubbed off, or that the work is unfinished.

The sculptor and the painter were therefore inseparably allied.

The first had no sooner finished his share of the task than the other took it up; and the same artist was often as skilful a master of the brush as of the chisel.
I .-- DRAWING AND COMPOSITION.
Of the system upon which drawing was taught by the Egyptian masters, we know nothing.