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From: Sunday Tribune (South Africa) | Date: May 4, 2008 | Copyright information

1 Sculpture of Khafre (Chephren)

(c2800BC) Cairo Museum

The painter Francis Bacon concluded that the ancient Egyptians were the greatest artists of all.

No work supports that judgment better than this sculpture of the Pharaoh Khafre, in black diorite with white veins, his head embraced by the hawk god Horus. It has a concentrated force and presence unequalled over 5 000 years.

q Easy flight to Cairol

2 The Hunts of Ashurbanipal

Relief sculptures from Nineveh, northern Iraq (c645BC) British Museum

Narrative art achieved a fresh level of naturalism in ...

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