Egypt
Tampa Bay Times (Lennie Bennett)
With photos.
- Exhibition: 19th Century Photographs Of Egypt, Florida
Art Daily With a magnificent sepia photograph of the Sphinx, Great Pyramid and an unlikely group of visitors to the area on camel-back - check out the beard of the chap on the left. Oh to be in Florida right now! Egypt was an exotic land to nineteenth-century...
- Exhibition: A Secret Voyage
drhawass.com Open til 12th January The photography exhibition, A Secret Voyage: A Journey Into the Realm of the Pharaohs will open on Sunday, December 12 at 6 PM at the Egyptian Museum. The exhibition features the photography of Sandro Vannini, and focuses...
- Exhibition: To Live Forever
tampabay.com (Lennie Bennett) A good review of To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, U.S. until January 11th 2009. I wish that I could go. Here's an extract: Unlike...
- Magic In Ancient Egypt Video
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/A 22 minute video in Windows Media Player or RealOne Player: "As expressed in monuments that retain their impact still today, magic and the supernatural filled the lives of ancient Egyptians. In this made-for-TAC video,...
- Egyptian Treasures: From The Collections Of The Brooklyn Museum
Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York 1978 ISBN 0-8109-2170-7 How I dislike over sized books this one though half a book shelf long is not thick and it's size is exploited beautifully with full page photographs by Seth Joel. Many beautiful objects...
Egypt
Exhibtion Review: Ancient Egypt - Art and Magic
Tampa Bay Times (Lennie Bennett)
With photos.
Being an art critic has mandated that I see all art, not just my preferred art, and judge it with an open mind. That mandate has been a gift. It opened my eyes to the value of so much that I otherwise would have ignored, which has been especially true of antiquities. Now I love.
Yes, love.
I find in them essential and universal human connections. The long-gone lives they represent are usually only dimly known, if at all, and even the cultures from which they come hold mysteries despite exhaustive research and study through the ages. But in these objects, their world lives still. We see what mattered to these people and measure their values against our own. Often, the distance between us is not great.
All of which is a long prelude to my hope that you will see "Ancient Egypt — Art and Magic" at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. You have time; it continues through April 29. And take your time while there. This is the kind of exhibition that unfolds slowly and subtly, and reading the wall labels really does enrich the experience.
A lovely group of about 100 pieces comes from the much larger collection of Jean Claude Gandur, a European billionaire, and is curated by Egyptologist Robert Steven Bianchi.
- Exhibition: 19th Century Photographs Of Egypt, Florida
Art Daily With a magnificent sepia photograph of the Sphinx, Great Pyramid and an unlikely group of visitors to the area on camel-back - check out the beard of the chap on the left. Oh to be in Florida right now! Egypt was an exotic land to nineteenth-century...
- Exhibition: A Secret Voyage
drhawass.com Open til 12th January The photography exhibition, A Secret Voyage: A Journey Into the Realm of the Pharaohs will open on Sunday, December 12 at 6 PM at the Egyptian Museum. The exhibition features the photography of Sandro Vannini, and focuses...
- Exhibition: To Live Forever
tampabay.com (Lennie Bennett) A good review of To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, U.S. until January 11th 2009. I wish that I could go. Here's an extract: Unlike...
- Magic In Ancient Egypt Video
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/A 22 minute video in Windows Media Player or RealOne Player: "As expressed in monuments that retain their impact still today, magic and the supernatural filled the lives of ancient Egyptians. In this made-for-TAC video,...
- Egyptian Treasures: From The Collections Of The Brooklyn Museum
Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York 1978 ISBN 0-8109-2170-7 How I dislike over sized books this one though half a book shelf long is not thick and it's size is exploited beautifully with full page photographs by Seth Joel. Many beautiful objects...