Now and then it happened that a painter more daring than his contemporaries ventured to break with tradition.

In the Sixth Dynasty tombs at Deir el Gebrawi, there are instances where the flesh tint of the women is that conventionally devoted to the depiction of men.

At Sakkarah, under the Fifth Dynasty, and at Abu Simbel, under the Nineteenth Dynasty, we find men with skins as yellow as those of the women; while in the tombs of Thebes and Abydos, about the time of Thothmes IV.

and Horemheb, there occur figures with flesh-tints of rose- colour.[41] It must not, however, be supposed that the effect produced by this artificial system was grating or discordant.

Even in works of small size, such as illuminated MSS.