Egypt
- Exhibition: Twilight Of The Pharaohs (france)
Cruisemates (Barbara Ferguson and Tim Kennedy) With some gorgeous photographs. Egyptology and antiquity fans won't want to miss this displayed collection of precious treasures in Paris. A jewel-box mansion in the middle of Paris holds a surprising...
- Exhibition Review: Méroé, Un Empire Sur Le Nil
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian) A detailed review of the exhibition. A spring exhibition at the Louvre in Paris is throwing unexpected light on the ancient history of Sudan, writes David Tresilian Housed in the temporary exhibition space in the Richelieu...
- Exhibition: The Great African Meroë Empire At The Louvre
afrik.com (Shahinez Benabed) With Meroitic timeline. Meroë is one of the great kingdoms of ancient Sudan. Perched next to it was Egypt, another, great kingdom. For several centuries, especially the late period and during the reign of Cleopatra, Meroë...
- Paris: Capital Of Islamic Design
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian) The magnificent setting of the Musée des arts décoratifs in Paris is presently the backdrop for Purs décors? Arts de l'Islam, regards du XIX me si cle, a survey exhibition on the influence of Islamic art on late...
- Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs
Barbara Mertz Harper 2007 ISBN 978 0 06 125276 1 This is the second revised edition of this 1964 book by the well respected author Barbara Mertz. This book starts out with the traditional format of the earliest cultures of Upper and lower Egypt up to...
Egypt
Exhibition: Late pharaonic art
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian)
Crépuscule des pharaons, chefs d'oeuvre des dernières dynasties égyptiennes, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, until 23 July 2012.
Crépuscule des pharaons, chefs d'oeuvre des dernières dynasties égyptiennes, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, until 23 July 2012.
Following the end of the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom in around 1000 BCE, Egypt entered a long "late period," book-ended by the arrival of Alexander the Great in 332 BCE, during which dynasties rose and fell with bewildering frequency. Political fragmentation and various foreign invasions only exacerbated centuries of decline.
Few of the sort of magnificent temples that had marked the apogee of ancient Egyptian civilisation during the previous New Kingdom were built, and while the country's characteristic political and religious organisation was in the main preserved, the pharaohs that ruled Egypt during the centuries of its decline are on the whole rather anonymous figures, not leaving painted tombs behind them like those on the West Bank of the Nile at Luxor and often ruling for short periods and over only parts of the country.
However, as a current exhibition at the musée Jacquemart-André in Paris reveals, the thousand years or so of ancient Egypt's late period also gave rise to a late style, notably of characteristic ancient Egyptian forms of art such as sculpture, which introduced many intriguing new innovations while continuing in the traditions laid down by the ancestors of the period's artists and artisans.
- Exhibition: Twilight Of The Pharaohs (france)
Cruisemates (Barbara Ferguson and Tim Kennedy) With some gorgeous photographs. Egyptology and antiquity fans won't want to miss this displayed collection of precious treasures in Paris. A jewel-box mansion in the middle of Paris holds a surprising...
- Exhibition Review: Méroé, Un Empire Sur Le Nil
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian) A detailed review of the exhibition. A spring exhibition at the Louvre in Paris is throwing unexpected light on the ancient history of Sudan, writes David Tresilian Housed in the temporary exhibition space in the Richelieu...
- Exhibition: The Great African Meroë Empire At The Louvre
afrik.com (Shahinez Benabed) With Meroitic timeline. Meroë is one of the great kingdoms of ancient Sudan. Perched next to it was Egypt, another, great kingdom. For several centuries, especially the late period and during the reign of Cleopatra, Meroë...
- Paris: Capital Of Islamic Design
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian) The magnificent setting of the Musée des arts décoratifs in Paris is presently the backdrop for Purs décors? Arts de l'Islam, regards du XIX me si cle, a survey exhibition on the influence of Islamic art on late...
- Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs
Barbara Mertz Harper 2007 ISBN 978 0 06 125276 1 This is the second revised edition of this 1964 book by the well respected author Barbara Mertz. This book starts out with the traditional format of the earliest cultures of Upper and lower Egypt up to...