Egypt
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 in Ancient Egypt at the Brooklyn Museum (February 12-May 2, 2010).
Selected from more than 1,200 prized objects in the museum's world-class collection of Egyptian antiquities, the works on display range in date from 3600 B.C. to 400 A.D. From predynastic times through the Roman period, they document how the ancient Egyptians sought to conquer death and survive throughout eternity.
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Exhibition: Brooklyn Examines Mummies
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) To Live Forever: Art and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt is a traveling special exhibition devoted to Egyptian funerary art, practices and beliefs. In preparation for the show, scholars at New York's Brooklyn Museum...
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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...
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Two Egyptian Art Exhibitions Coming To Brooklyn Museum
Suite101 (Stan Parchin) The Brooklyn Museum turns to its antiquities collection for two cost-saving special exhibitions. Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments & Amulets (November 2009-October 2011) and To Live Forever: Art and the Afterlife in Ancient...
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Exhibition: To Live Forever At Indianapolis
Art Daily The Indianapolis Museum of Art will be the first venue to host To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum, which will be on view July 13 – September 7, 2008. Featuring approximately 120 objects dating from 3600 B.C. to 400...
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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...
Egypt