Egypt
syracuse.com (Katherine Rushworth)
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- 'egypt Unveiled' Exhibition On View At Firestone
Princeton University "Egypt Unveiled: The Mission of Napoleon's Savants," an exhibition marking the 200th anniversary of a seminal publication of Egyptian history, will be on view from Dec. 21 through May 10 in the main gallery of Firestone Library....
- Exhibition: Napoleon On The Nile
Art Daily The Snug Harbor Cultural Center presents the exhibit Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt through June 15. This spring the Museum will focus on the Description de l’Egypte, the seminal multi-volume work that...
- Book Review: Napoleon In Egypt
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/review.cfm?id=576012007 Napoleon in Egypt, by Paul Strathern Jonathan Cape, £20 (UKP) "One of the oddities of the French Revolution was the manic utopianism that it inspired in men such as Napoleon. By 1798 the Revolution...
- More On 'le Déscription' At The Dahesh
http://tinyurl.com/kxwja (nj.com) "The Dahesh Museum has a show devoted to 'Le Déscription', Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt, that includes many engravings and two rare complete editions. The "Déscription"...
- Exhibition: Napoleon On The Nile
http://tinyurl.com/gsxf6 (nytimes.com)A new exhibition at Dahesh Museum of Art in New York, Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists and the Rediscovery of Egypt, looks at the most outstanding result of Napoleon's brief conquest of Egypt - the staggering...
Egypt
Exhibition: Napoleon in Egypt
syracuse.com (Katherine Rushworth)
It's been said, especially recently, that history has a way of repeating itself. Armies invade and wars are waged year after year and century after century. As much as advances in science and technology can propel us forward, the foibles of human nature can pull us backward.
When Napoleon Bonaparte stormed into Alexandria, Egypt in 1798, he was following in the footsteps of a long line of earlier occupiers. The Romans, The Crusaders and Alexander the Great all left their footprints on the history of Egypt. But Napoleon's occupation went beyond a mere military force. Among the 55,000 troops and 400 ships arriving near the shores of Alexandria, were 150 scientists, engineers and artists known as savants. It was their job to explore, describe and document every facet of Egypt. From the architecture to the country's flora and fauna, no stoneliterallywas to be left unturned.
An interesting, if not somewhat academic, exhibition on view in the SUArt Galleries illustrates how Napoleon's quest to document all-things-Egyptian informed Western views of the country and influenced painters, architects, photographers and decorative artists for centuries to follow. The show, titled "Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt," is on loan from the Dahesh Museum of Art in New York City and remains on view in the Shaffer Art Building until March 29.
See the above page for the full story.
- 'egypt Unveiled' Exhibition On View At Firestone
Princeton University "Egypt Unveiled: The Mission of Napoleon's Savants," an exhibition marking the 200th anniversary of a seminal publication of Egyptian history, will be on view from Dec. 21 through May 10 in the main gallery of Firestone Library....
- Exhibition: Napoleon On The Nile
Art Daily The Snug Harbor Cultural Center presents the exhibit Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt through June 15. This spring the Museum will focus on the Description de l’Egypte, the seminal multi-volume work that...
- Book Review: Napoleon In Egypt
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/review.cfm?id=576012007 Napoleon in Egypt, by Paul Strathern Jonathan Cape, £20 (UKP) "One of the oddities of the French Revolution was the manic utopianism that it inspired in men such as Napoleon. By 1798 the Revolution...
- More On 'le Déscription' At The Dahesh
http://tinyurl.com/kxwja (nj.com) "The Dahesh Museum has a show devoted to 'Le Déscription', Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt, that includes many engravings and two rare complete editions. The "Déscription"...
- Exhibition: Napoleon On The Nile
http://tinyurl.com/gsxf6 (nytimes.com)A new exhibition at Dahesh Museum of Art in New York, Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists and the Rediscovery of Egypt, looks at the most outstanding result of Napoleon's brief conquest of Egypt - the staggering...