Egypt

Ancient objects whisper the desire to live forever

Herald Tribune (Kevin Costello)

Against vistas of sun-baked dunes and cold, star-filled desert nights, the ancient Egyptians created an art and culture centered on death and the afterlife.

"To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures From The Brooklyn Museum," a traveling exhibit of more than 100 objects explores this relationship to the afterlife and the gods and goddesses who inhabited this universe. The exhibit includes a mummy and portrait of Demetrios, a wealthy citizen of Hawara (95-100 A.D.), two mummies of dogs (664 B.C.-395 A.D.), a painted coffin of a mayor of Thebes (about 1075-945 B.C), stone sculptures and statues, protective jewelry, amulets and ritual vessels. Here an ancient civilization that has fascinated generations with its wealth of materials, such as faience and gold, and dark imaginings is vividly brought to life. Since the early 19th century a fascination with things Egyptian called Egyptomania has influenced many aspects of western visual culture, most recently Halloween costumes of "The Mummy" and horror films.

The exhibit illustrates the longevity of Egyptian culture, beginning with a knife from the Pre-Dynastic Period (4400-3000 B.C.) to the dog mummies of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (30 B.C.-642 A.D.).

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- Exhibition: To Live Forever
Arts Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) Ancient Egyptian funerary practices and religious beliefs about death and the afterlife are vividly described by 107 pieces of jewelry, sarcophagi (coffins), statuary and vessels in To Live Forever: Art and the Afterlife...

- Exhibition: The Mummy Chamber In New York, Summer 2010
http://artmuseumjournal.com/mummy_chamber.aspx The Mummy Chamber, a long-term installation of more than 170 artifacts that explores the ancient Egyptians' complex funerary rituals and beliefs associated with mummification, opens at the Brooklyn Museum...

- Exhibition: To Live Forever At The Columbus Museum Of Art
Ohio.com (Betty O'Neill-Roderick) This review of the exhibition focuses on the mummy of a Graeco-Roman man named Demetrios, of which there is also a photograph on the above page. "To Live Forever," an exhibit of Egyptian treasures from the Brooklyn...

- Museum, Cosi Plan Egypt Projects
The Columbus Dispatch (Tim Feran) The Columbus Museum of Art and COSI Columbus will showcase consecutive major exhibits next year: • "To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures From the Brooklyn Museum" -- to run from Feb. 13 to June 7 at the museum -- explores...

- Exhibition: To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures From The Brooklyn Museum
Huliq.com The Brooklyn Museum has organized an exhibition of 107 objects from its world-renowned holdings of ancient Egyptian art that will go on a nationwide tour beginning in the summer of 2008 and conclude in the fall of 2011. The presentation, titled...

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