108/135 If, during more than a century, Egyptian art remained free, graceful, and refined, that improvement was due to the school of Tell el Amarna. In no instance perhaps did it produce work more perfect than the bas-reliefs of the temple of Abydos, or those of the tomb of Seti I.The head of the conqueror (fig. 197), always studied _con amore_, is a marvel of reserved and sensitive grace. charging the enemy at Abu Simbel is as fine as the portraits of Seti I., though in another style. |