Egyptian sculpture displays size, simplicity, stiffness, and little
of what modern art calls taste or beauty. Neither did the Egyptians
become true artists of the pictorial class. They used simple colors
of brilliant hue; but of light and shade only little was known; and
of perspective, nothing.
Their monuments prove, however, that they practiced the same
mechanic arts, and used the same variety of tools, as the moderns.
They were adepts at the finest work in every species of handicraft.
We have here ample proof that the ancient Egyptians were a highly
ingenious, artistic, tasteful, and industrious race.