Excerpt from Schools and Masters of Painting: With an Appendix on the Principal Galleries of Europe
The golden age of Painting lies in the Christian centuries. The legacies of Beauty and Art which have come down from the Old World exist in undecaying stone, not in fading color or transitory light and shade. Sculpture glories in the antique, but pagan pictures were only born to die. Some charming fragments indeed remain, such as the frescoes of Pompeii and other mural decorations; but the materials of the art were too perishable, and the art itself too lightly rooted, to be spared by Time. Yet the history of painting is coeval with the Pyramids; and the curious mummy-cloths which we may examine in our museums, and the tomb-pictures, of which travelers tell us, in the ruins along the Nile, are still left us as the records of the alphabet of the art. According to Pliny, the Egyptians boasted that they had invented painting six thousand years before it passed into Greece.
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