Smith W. Stevenson. The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt

Penguin Books, 1958. — 524 p. — (The Pelican History of Art).A classic work on the history of art and architecture in Ancient Egypt by the American Egyptologist William Stevenson Smith (1907-1969), curator of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. History of architecture and art in Ancient Egypt traced in chronological order of origin and development of forms through the epochs of the Pre-Dynastic Period, the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms, the decline and the Sai Renaissance during the Late Period until the transformation of Egypt into a Hellenistic monarchy (332 BC).