Egypt
Free Times (Ron Aiken)
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- Exhibition: Fashion And Beauty In Ancient Egypt, Barcelona
Ahram Online (Mohammed Elrazzaz) With three photos. Among the celebrated masterpieces of the collection are the Cartonage belonging to the Lady of the House of Djed-Montu-iues-anj (XXII dynasty); the partially reproduced Tomb of Nakht, the Scribe-Astronomer...
- Photo For Today - Faience Bead Dress (petrie Museum)
Museum number - UC17743 Part of network dress of blue and black faience beads mostly cylinder and two blue and black faience breast 'caps', also quantity loose beads, and two strings of Mitra beads, probably part of the original dress. Dynasty...
- Egyptian Art Exhibit Coming To Cal State San Bernardino Museum Nov. 22
The Press EnterpriseFor the first time in history, a portion of his extraordinary findings have come to the United States in "Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology." So far, the exhibit has traveled to such...
- Daily Photo - Clothing From The Petrie Museum
The daily photo slot is hearby resumed, with my thanks to the Petrie who gave me the go-ahead to use their online database to make sure that I have sufficient material to update the blog with photographs on a daily basis. Thankfully, their descriptions...
- Egyptomania: Cleopatra In Ballet
Aiken Standard William Starrett, artistic and executive director of the Columbia City Ballet, said "Cleopatra" has been two years in the making. It was created as a companion piece to a new exhibition opening this weekend at the Columbia Museum of Art,...
Egypt
Exhibition: More re Excavating Egypt at Columbia
Free Times (Ron Aiken)
Sometime in or about the year 2400 B.C., a wealthy Egyptian noblewoman rose from her bed in the ancient capital of Thebes, greeted the morning sun and donned a beautiful beaded-net dress — likely the best she owned — to wear to the year’s biggest festival honoring the sun god, Ra.
Now, some 4,400 years later, that exact same dress has traveled to the Columbia Museum of Art, painstakingly preserved as part of the exhibition Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, which opens Sunday.
“When they found that dress, all that was left was a box of beads and shells since the string had long since decomposed,” says Todd Herman, chief curator at the Columbia Museum of Art. “It took researchers decades to figure out how it fit together, and it wasn’t until 1994 that the dress finally came together in the form it is now.
“The dress is really spectacular both because of how beautiful it is but also because of how it managed to survive for so long. You just don’t see things like this very often.”
See the above for the full story.
- Exhibition: Fashion And Beauty In Ancient Egypt, Barcelona
Ahram Online (Mohammed Elrazzaz) With three photos. Among the celebrated masterpieces of the collection are the Cartonage belonging to the Lady of the House of Djed-Montu-iues-anj (XXII dynasty); the partially reproduced Tomb of Nakht, the Scribe-Astronomer...
- Photo For Today - Faience Bead Dress (petrie Museum)
Museum number - UC17743 Part of network dress of blue and black faience beads mostly cylinder and two blue and black faience breast 'caps', also quantity loose beads, and two strings of Mitra beads, probably part of the original dress. Dynasty...
- Egyptian Art Exhibit Coming To Cal State San Bernardino Museum Nov. 22
The Press EnterpriseFor the first time in history, a portion of his extraordinary findings have come to the United States in "Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology." So far, the exhibit has traveled to such...
- Daily Photo - Clothing From The Petrie Museum
The daily photo slot is hearby resumed, with my thanks to the Petrie who gave me the go-ahead to use their online database to make sure that I have sufficient material to update the blog with photographs on a daily basis. Thankfully, their descriptions...
- Egyptomania: Cleopatra In Ballet
Aiken Standard William Starrett, artistic and executive director of the Columbia City Ballet, said "Cleopatra" has been two years in the making. It was created as a companion piece to a new exhibition opening this weekend at the Columbia Museum of Art,...