Egypt
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin)
Needless to say the Egyptian department has a presence in the database! See the above page for the full story.
- Exhibition: Queens Of Egypt: Exhibit Preview
Suite 101 (Stan Parchin) "Reines d'Egypte" ("Queens of Egypt") at Monaco's Grimaldi Forum describes the varied roles of royal women through some 250 objects from collections worldwide. The landmark exhibition Reines d'Egypte (Queens of Egypt)...
- The Louvre Takes Its Shows On The Road
International Herald Tribune (Dana Micucci) As growing numbers of art galleries and art fairs in Paris bid to restore the city's former luster as a center of international art, the Louvre Museum is also expanding its global reach, sending out expeditionary...
- 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...
- Aigyptos
www.aigyptos.uni-muenchen.de www.aigyptos.uni-muenchen.de/indexe.htm It has recently been announced that AIGYPTOS, a free online database of Egyptological literature, formerly only available in German (top URL), is now also available in English (second...
- Louvre - Partial Photography Ban
http://tinyurl.com/9s52a http://tinyurl.com/8cc8e There has been a lot of discussion recently about whether or not the Louvre are going to ban photography, so thanks to Thierry Benderitter from osiris.net for pointing out the above news item (first URL...
Egypt
Musée du Louvre Launches Online Database in English
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin)
Paris' Musée du Louvre announced today the launch of its first-ever English-language version of Atlas, its free-of-charge online collections database. Supported by €300,000 in grants raised by American Friends of the Louvre, it goes live tomorrow morning.
Some 22, 000 works of art, accompanied by high-resolution images and information about their specific locations within the museum, are now described in English on the Louvre's Web site.
Needless to say the Egyptian department has a presence in the database! See the above page for the full story.
- Exhibition: Queens Of Egypt: Exhibit Preview
Suite 101 (Stan Parchin) "Reines d'Egypte" ("Queens of Egypt") at Monaco's Grimaldi Forum describes the varied roles of royal women through some 250 objects from collections worldwide. The landmark exhibition Reines d'Egypte (Queens of Egypt)...
- The Louvre Takes Its Shows On The Road
International Herald Tribune (Dana Micucci) As growing numbers of art galleries and art fairs in Paris bid to restore the city's former luster as a center of international art, the Louvre Museum is also expanding its global reach, sending out expeditionary...
- 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...
- Aigyptos
www.aigyptos.uni-muenchen.de www.aigyptos.uni-muenchen.de/indexe.htm It has recently been announced that AIGYPTOS, a free online database of Egyptological literature, formerly only available in German (top URL), is now also available in English (second...
- Louvre - Partial Photography Ban
http://tinyurl.com/9s52a http://tinyurl.com/8cc8e There has been a lot of discussion recently about whether or not the Louvre are going to ban photography, so thanks to Thierry Benderitter from osiris.net for pointing out the above news item (first URL...