Egypt
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See the above page for more. The Freer Sackler Collection can be found online:
http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/results.cfm?group=Ancient%20Egyptian%20Art
There are some gorgeous photographs on this page - click the thumbnail to see the full-sized image.
- Egyptian Objects Before Egyptology
Brooklyn Museum (Tom Hardwick) My work in the Wilbour Library involves keeping an eye out for books the Library needs, and carrying out archival research into the history of the Egyptian collections in support of the Library’s educational mission. In...
- New Gallery At The Oriental Museum, Durham, Uk
Oriental Museum The Oriental Museum in Durham (part of the University of Durham) has opened a new gallery featuring Egyptian art. Opened on the 10th July 2009, the display includes both familiar objects and items that have never previously been on display....
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Freer Sackler Online Collection - Ancient Egyptian Art Freer and Sackler Galleries An excellent photo gallery of the Ancient Egyptian Art collection from the Freer and Sackler Galleries in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.. For those of us...
- Exhibition: Ancient Glass
http://tinyurl.com/2qrthf (statesmanjournal.com) "Willamette University graduate Richard Brockway wanted to be an archaeologist but ended up as an engineer. But he never lost his first love. Over a 30-year period, he traveled to the Middle East, Asia...
- Egyptian Treasures: From The Collections Of The Brooklyn Museum
Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York 1978 ISBN 0-8109-2170-7 How I dislike over sized books this one though half a book shelf long is not thick and it's size is exploited beautifully with full page photographs by Seth Joel. Many beautiful objects...
Egypt
Egyptian Gems at the Freer
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WHEN CHARLES LANG FREER was scouring the shops of Cairo's antiquities dealers a century ago, two falcon sculptures, pictured above, caught his eye. The "two great stone Hawks," he wrote at the time, "would nobly defend my little group of Egyptian art when permanently housed."
While amassing 1,400 items might seem a gigantic feat, Freer's Egyptian collection is fairly modest, with some of the best on display in a tiny room on the east side of the Smithsonian museum that bears the art collector's name. While most internationally regarded museums with Egyptian collections will show off a giant sarcophagus or two, or a golden funerary mask, the Freer has a fascinating showcase of small glass objects, including vessels, beads and amulets, which you could easily miss when strolling through its galleries. But if the Freer's Egyptian gems catch your eye, you could easily spend an hour surveying the array of diminutive but fascinating objects.
See the above page for more. The Freer Sackler Collection can be found online:
http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/results.cfm?group=Ancient%20Egyptian%20Art
There are some gorgeous photographs on this page - click the thumbnail to see the full-sized image.
- Egyptian Objects Before Egyptology
Brooklyn Museum (Tom Hardwick) My work in the Wilbour Library involves keeping an eye out for books the Library needs, and carrying out archival research into the history of the Egyptian collections in support of the Library’s educational mission. In...
- New Gallery At The Oriental Museum, Durham, Uk
Oriental Museum The Oriental Museum in Durham (part of the University of Durham) has opened a new gallery featuring Egyptian art. Opened on the 10th July 2009, the display includes both familiar objects and items that have never previously been on display....
- Weekly Websites
Freer Sackler Online Collection - Ancient Egyptian Art Freer and Sackler Galleries An excellent photo gallery of the Ancient Egyptian Art collection from the Freer and Sackler Galleries in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.. For those of us...
- Exhibition: Ancient Glass
http://tinyurl.com/2qrthf (statesmanjournal.com) "Willamette University graduate Richard Brockway wanted to be an archaeologist but ended up as an engineer. But he never lost his first love. Over a 30-year period, he traveled to the Middle East, Asia...
- Egyptian Treasures: From The Collections Of The Brooklyn Museum
Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York 1978 ISBN 0-8109-2170-7 How I dislike over sized books this one though half a book shelf long is not thick and it's size is exploited beautifully with full page photographs by Seth Joel. Many beautiful objects...