Egypt
Cyril Aldred
The Brooklyn Museum
The Viking Press
1973
SBN 670-11139-2
U.S.A.
This 1973 book is by the late Egyptologist Cyril Aldred for the Brooklyn museums 150 year anniversary. Though I must say the late Mr. Aldred,s last book I read was his 1968 "Akhenaten Pharaoh of Egypt" and was surely one of the classics of Egyptology so this book was almost certainly good but could it live up to Akhenaten.
The very knowledgeable Mr. Aldred clearly understood the art of the Amarna period with the subtleties of the period. The book opens with a description of the Amarna revolution and a historical outline of the period leading into the building program of King Akhenaten and his Queen Nefertiti.
Mr. Aldred than very helpfully discusses the periods of art within the revolution breaking the art of the reign into an early, middle and later phases. This first half of the book ends with a overview of the iconography and character of the art of the heretics reign.
The earlier mention of the phases of Amarna art into early, middle and late periods becomes extremely useful in the second half of the book, the catalogue which has its objects presented in this order beginning with the art of the early revolution with its exaggerated style which softens as the reign progress'.
The catalogue is truly one of the most remarkable of Amarna art I have seen ending with a number of shawabti's from the royal tomb. Particularly interesting and beautiful are the talatats from the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the collection of Norbert Schimmel.
Another fantastic book by the great Cyril Aldred keeping in mind it is one thing to read a book and another to study it. This book is worth spending serious time looking at particularly if you wish to know about the art of Akhenaten and Nefertiti.
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Egypt
Akhenaten and Nefertiti
Cyril Aldred
The Brooklyn Museum
The Viking Press
1973
SBN 670-11139-2
U.S.A.
This 1973 book is by the late Egyptologist Cyril Aldred for the Brooklyn museums 150 year anniversary. Though I must say the late Mr. Aldred,s last book I read was his 1968 "Akhenaten Pharaoh of Egypt" and was surely one of the classics of Egyptology so this book was almost certainly good but could it live up to Akhenaten.
The very knowledgeable Mr. Aldred clearly understood the art of the Amarna period with the subtleties of the period. The book opens with a description of the Amarna revolution and a historical outline of the period leading into the building program of King Akhenaten and his Queen Nefertiti.
Mr. Aldred than very helpfully discusses the periods of art within the revolution breaking the art of the reign into an early, middle and later phases. This first half of the book ends with a overview of the iconography and character of the art of the heretics reign.
The earlier mention of the phases of Amarna art into early, middle and late periods becomes extremely useful in the second half of the book, the catalogue which has its objects presented in this order beginning with the art of the early revolution with its exaggerated style which softens as the reign progress'.
The catalogue is truly one of the most remarkable of Amarna art I have seen ending with a number of shawabti's from the royal tomb. Particularly interesting and beautiful are the talatats from the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the collection of Norbert Schimmel.
Another fantastic book by the great Cyril Aldred keeping in mind it is one thing to read a book and another to study it. This book is worth spending serious time looking at particularly if you wish to know about the art of Akhenaten and Nefertiti.
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Sidestone Press Amarna's Leatherwork. Part I. Preliminary analysis and catalogue By André J. Veldmeijer The ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna (or Amarna, ancient Akhetaten) was the short-lived capital built by the controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten,...
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As usual I find myself in the middle of a hot summer with little energy to do much except read and would suggest these eleven books are likely to not only pass time but to inspire the thoughts of the reader back into days of drifting sand and elegance...
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