Egypt
Louvre Atlanta Home Page
- Exhibition: The Louvre And The Ancient World
High Museum of Art, Atlanta The Louvre and the Ancient World features masterpieces from the founding cultures of Western civilization and will include more than 70 works from the Louvre’s unparalleled Egyptian, Near Eastern and Greco-Roman antiquities...
- Exhibition: The Eye Of Josephine At Atlanta's High Museum
Aiken Standard (Tom Mack) Napoleon Bonaparte once said that the only thing that came between him and his first wife Josephine were her debts. Even before she was crowned Empress of France, Josephine, who was born and raised on a sugar plantation in the...
- Profile: Henri Loyrette
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20775004-28737,00.htmlTo coincide with the Louvre Egyptology exhibition currently showing in Australia, there is a profile about the current head of the Louvre, Henri Loyrette: "Little in Henri Loyrette's...
- Exhibition: Egyptian Antiquities From The Louvre
http://tinyurl.com/ybew2k (smh.com.au) Article about a new exhibition opening soon in the National Gallery of Australia, Egyptian Antiquities from the Louvre: Journey to the Afterlife, based on an interview with co-ordinating curator Bronwyn Campbell:...
- The Louvre Suspension
Five fragments of wall paintings in the Louvre were stolen from an Egyptian tomb in 1980 in an area of the Theban necropolis known as "the tombs of the nobles". The Supreme council of antiquities informed the Louvre's director Henri Loyrette who apparently...
Egypt
Exhibition: The Louvre in Atlanta
Louvre Atlanta Home Page
Be warned - as soon as you click on the above hyperlink, it launches a video interview accompanied by background music. I was still half asleep when I clicked on it, and I nearly jumped out of my skin.
The website is the home page of the Louvre Atlanta project - a series of exhibitions taking place over a three year period, now moving into year two.
The interview on the home page is between Henri Loyrette, President and Director of the Musée du Louvre, and Michael E. Shapiro, the Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Director of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia (where the exhibition is taking place). Each page loads a different video.
Thanks very much to Chris Townsend for pointing me to the page.
The website is the home page of the Louvre Atlanta project - a series of exhibitions taking place over a three year period, now moving into year two.
Louvre Atlanta continues this fall with The Louvre and the Ancient World. Showcasing more than 130 treasured Egyptian, Near Eastern, and Greco-Roman antiquities from the Louvre, the exhibition examines the growth of these collections under Napoleon, the discoveries and decipherment of hieroglyphics and cuneiform, and the Louvre's leading role in excavating the cradle of civilization at the end of the 19th century and during the 20th century.
A special installation highlights the colossal, ten-foot-long Tiber—one of the largest sculptures in the Louvre's collections. The Eye of Josephine, opening concurrently, reassembles more than 60 Greco-Roman and Egyptian antiquities that were installed by the Empress Josephine at Malmaison, her residence located on the outskirts of Paris.
The interview on the home page is between Henri Loyrette, President and Director of the Musée du Louvre, and Michael E. Shapiro, the Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Director of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia (where the exhibition is taking place). Each page loads a different video.
- Exhibition: The Louvre And The Ancient World
High Museum of Art, Atlanta The Louvre and the Ancient World features masterpieces from the founding cultures of Western civilization and will include more than 70 works from the Louvre’s unparalleled Egyptian, Near Eastern and Greco-Roman antiquities...
- Exhibition: The Eye Of Josephine At Atlanta's High Museum
Aiken Standard (Tom Mack) Napoleon Bonaparte once said that the only thing that came between him and his first wife Josephine were her debts. Even before she was crowned Empress of France, Josephine, who was born and raised on a sugar plantation in the...
- Profile: Henri Loyrette
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20775004-28737,00.htmlTo coincide with the Louvre Egyptology exhibition currently showing in Australia, there is a profile about the current head of the Louvre, Henri Loyrette: "Little in Henri Loyrette's...
- Exhibition: Egyptian Antiquities From The Louvre
http://tinyurl.com/ybew2k (smh.com.au) Article about a new exhibition opening soon in the National Gallery of Australia, Egyptian Antiquities from the Louvre: Journey to the Afterlife, based on an interview with co-ordinating curator Bronwyn Campbell:...
- The Louvre Suspension
Five fragments of wall paintings in the Louvre were stolen from an Egyptian tomb in 1980 in an area of the Theban necropolis known as "the tombs of the nobles". The Supreme council of antiquities informed the Louvre's director Henri Loyrette who apparently...