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- Still Them And Us
Al Ahram Weekly (Gamal Nkrumah) Drawings of the Time: Impressions from Edfu Temple is an exhibition that displays colourful and engaging portraits of high priests of ancient Egyptian Temples. Gamal Nkrumah discovers they tend to be at odds with contemporary...
- Exhibition: Gianadda Presents Egyptian Offerings
Tribune de Geneve Ancient artwork gathered at Martigny’s Gianadda Foundation reflects the complex relationships maintained between men and their deities thousands of years ago. Offrandes aux Dieux d’Egypte (Offerings to the Egyptian Gods), the latest...
- More Re Ehnasya Al-medina Cemetery
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) The site of Ehnasya Al-Medina, which is perched on a hill, incorporates a number of cemeteries and temples spanning from the late First Intermediate Period and early Middle Kingdom through to the Roman period. From this...
- New Book: Gifts For The Gods
Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art has released a new book to accompany its Gift for the Gods exhibtion on metalwork in ancient Egypt, about which I posted yesterday: Edited by Marsha Hill and Deborah Schorsch. Published in conjunction...
- Exhibition: Gifts For The Gods: Images From Egyptian Temples
Huliq.com (Ruzik Tuzik) Overview of a new exhibition, which is due to open at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in October, and looks like an absolute cracker, focusing on the importance of metal working (running from October 16, 2007–February...
Egypt
Exhibition: More re Gifts from the Gods
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In harmony with their gods. Ancient Egyptians were true believers, creating statuaries of gold and bronze fit for the temples of nobles and royals.
Experts like Curator Marsha Hill are still trying to understand and unlock the mysteries surrounding many of the 70-works on display here that cover a long period of time.
Hill explained to CBS 2's Dana Tyler, "All you see here are from temples and temple workshops. The time period, trying to explain the development so it's really from middle kingdom, so 2,000 years. But the focus and high point of Egyptian metal statuary is the Third Intermediate Period, when royal power was diminished. And the temples came up like churches in the Middle Ages they were the places where art was produced."
See the above page for more.
- Still Them And Us
Al Ahram Weekly (Gamal Nkrumah) Drawings of the Time: Impressions from Edfu Temple is an exhibition that displays colourful and engaging portraits of high priests of ancient Egyptian Temples. Gamal Nkrumah discovers they tend to be at odds with contemporary...
- Exhibition: Gianadda Presents Egyptian Offerings
Tribune de Geneve Ancient artwork gathered at Martigny’s Gianadda Foundation reflects the complex relationships maintained between men and their deities thousands of years ago. Offrandes aux Dieux d’Egypte (Offerings to the Egyptian Gods), the latest...
- More Re Ehnasya Al-medina Cemetery
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) The site of Ehnasya Al-Medina, which is perched on a hill, incorporates a number of cemeteries and temples spanning from the late First Intermediate Period and early Middle Kingdom through to the Roman period. From this...
- New Book: Gifts For The Gods
Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art has released a new book to accompany its Gift for the Gods exhibtion on metalwork in ancient Egypt, about which I posted yesterday: Edited by Marsha Hill and Deborah Schorsch. Published in conjunction...
- Exhibition: Gifts For The Gods: Images From Egyptian Temples
Huliq.com (Ruzik Tuzik) Overview of a new exhibition, which is due to open at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in October, and looks like an absolute cracker, focusing on the importance of metal working (running from October 16, 2007–February...