Egypt
New York Times (Carel Vogel)
- Germany Lends Statue To Egypt For Show
IOL Egypt said on Tuesday that Germany had agreed to return a 4500-year-old ancient Egyptian statue for a temporary exhibition at the inauguration of the new Egyptian Museum in 2011. Antiquity supremo Zahi Hawass said the Roman and Pelizaeus Museum in...
- Hathsepsut Opens In New York
http://www.nysun.com/article/29656 A useful overview of the exhibition and the historical context: "The Metropolitan Museum of Art's enormous, glorious show Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh begins in the Great Hall with the Met's own colossal...
- Pieces Of Amenhotep And Tiye
Anyone who has ever visited the Cairo museum has seen and remembers well the colossal statue of Amenhotep III and his great wife Tiye. The statue is extremely rare in Egyptian art for it depicts Tiye on the same scale as king Amenhotep III. When originally...
- The Ten Most Important Egyptian Objects Outside Egypt
This is a list of the most important Egyptian artifacts not the property of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. Though there are certainly more contenders for the list including perhaps the gold headdress of a wife of Thutmosis III in...
- Not A Loan
This article is on the Rosetta stone and Egypt's Secretary general of the Supreme counsel of antiquities desire to have it back not as a loan but permanent. In recent weeks Dr. Zahi Hawass has become less diplomatic with not only the British museum...
Egypt
Monumental statue on loan to NY Met for 10 years
New York Times (Carel Vogel)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s flair for the dramatic will not end when the blockbuster Alexander McQueen exhibition closes at midnight on Sunday. Its encore will be theatrical, but in an entirely different way. A colossal statue of a pharaoh weighing more than nine tons is heading to the Met by ship from Germany. When it arrives in New York in the next 10 days, it will go on view in the museum’s Great Hall.
The Egyptian Museum in Berlin owns the statue but is in the middle of construction and renovations and so has agreed to lend the pharaoh to the Met for 10 years. For the first year the statue will be hard to miss. Plans call for putting it on the north side of the Great Hall, signaling the way to the Egyptian galleries.
Installing such a monumental stone work will take an entire day. It will lie on its back in an enormous crate on what Met officials describe as “high-tech wheels” and be moved through the galleries to the Great Hall. In about a year it will move again — to the Egyptian galleries, naturally.
Although the Met has its own world-class collection of Egyptian art, it has no monumental sculpture of this scale. One reason is that its Egyptian department was not founded until 1906, and it couldn’t catch up with institutions like the British Museum in London or the Louvre in Paris, which were able to snap up some giant pieces about a century earlier.
- Germany Lends Statue To Egypt For Show
IOL Egypt said on Tuesday that Germany had agreed to return a 4500-year-old ancient Egyptian statue for a temporary exhibition at the inauguration of the new Egyptian Museum in 2011. Antiquity supremo Zahi Hawass said the Roman and Pelizaeus Museum in...
- Hathsepsut Opens In New York
http://www.nysun.com/article/29656 A useful overview of the exhibition and the historical context: "The Metropolitan Museum of Art's enormous, glorious show Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh begins in the Great Hall with the Met's own colossal...
- Pieces Of Amenhotep And Tiye
Anyone who has ever visited the Cairo museum has seen and remembers well the colossal statue of Amenhotep III and his great wife Tiye. The statue is extremely rare in Egyptian art for it depicts Tiye on the same scale as king Amenhotep III. When originally...
- The Ten Most Important Egyptian Objects Outside Egypt
This is a list of the most important Egyptian artifacts not the property of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. Though there are certainly more contenders for the list including perhaps the gold headdress of a wife of Thutmosis III in...
- Not A Loan
This article is on the Rosetta stone and Egypt's Secretary general of the Supreme counsel of antiquities desire to have it back not as a loan but permanent. In recent weeks Dr. Zahi Hawass has become less diplomatic with not only the British museum...