Egypt
- Exhibition: Wonderful Things
Michael C Carlos Enews, February 2009 The thrill of discovery, chronicled as a turning-point in the appreciation of ancient art and societies, connects the exhibition “Wonderful Things: The Harry Burton Photographs and the Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun”...
- Exhibition: Wonderful Things At The Michael C. Carlos Museum
Artdaily.org The thrill of discovery, chronicled as a turning-point in the appreciation of ancient art and societies, connects the exhibition “Wonderful Things: The Harry Burton Photographs and the Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun” at the Michael...
- Exhibition: Harry Burton At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Ny
http://www.nysun.com/article/45604"Discovering Tutankhamun: The Photographs of Harry Burton creates a visual first-person narrative of one of modernity's greatest archeological finds. This exhibit gives viewers the feeling they're standing with...
- Two New Exhibitions In Chicago
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/060523.tut.shtml Thanks for the EEF News Digest (email version) for the above feature on the Oriental Institute website. Running from 23th May 2006 until 31st December 31 2006, are two new exhibitions at the Oriental...
- Opening The Tomb Of Tutankhamun - Photos Auctioned
http://search.sothebys.com/jsps/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=4DYYW On May 12th 142 press photographs of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter are going for sale by auction at Sotheby's. The photos were taken by by Harry Burton (1879-1940):...
Egypt
Photographs of an archaeological adventure
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/23/features/melik24.php
"Of all the cold cases in the art world thrillers, none beats the story of Tutankhamun's funerary chamber and the saga of the art treasures it held, recovered in what turned out to be the most important excavation ever relating to the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt.
Yet it took more than 80 years for the visual evidence to go on display under the title Discovering Tutankhamun: The Photographs of Harry Burton, first at the Oriental Institute Museum (at the University of Chicago) and now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until April 29. The book that comes with it, Tutankhamun's Tomb: The Thrill of Discovery should give food for thought to those who think that breaking up funerary caches to satisfy the appetites of commerce and of those for whom it caters is perfectly all right.
The photographs reveal a hidden aspect of the archaeological venture. The images show the finds as they were when first seen in their raw, unedited condition, immensely different from the polished appearance that the world famous treasures later acquired after cleaning and restoration."
Yet it took more than 80 years for the visual evidence to go on display under the title Discovering Tutankhamun: The Photographs of Harry Burton, first at the Oriental Institute Museum (at the University of Chicago) and now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until April 29. The book that comes with it, Tutankhamun's Tomb: The Thrill of Discovery should give food for thought to those who think that breaking up funerary caches to satisfy the appetites of commerce and of those for whom it caters is perfectly all right.
The photographs reveal a hidden aspect of the archaeological venture. The images show the finds as they were when first seen in their raw, unedited condition, immensely different from the polished appearance that the world famous treasures later acquired after cleaning and restoration."
See the above two-page article for the full story.
- Exhibition: Wonderful Things
Michael C Carlos Enews, February 2009 The thrill of discovery, chronicled as a turning-point in the appreciation of ancient art and societies, connects the exhibition “Wonderful Things: The Harry Burton Photographs and the Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun”...
- Exhibition: Wonderful Things At The Michael C. Carlos Museum
Artdaily.org The thrill of discovery, chronicled as a turning-point in the appreciation of ancient art and societies, connects the exhibition “Wonderful Things: The Harry Burton Photographs and the Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun” at the Michael...
- Exhibition: Harry Burton At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Ny
http://www.nysun.com/article/45604"Discovering Tutankhamun: The Photographs of Harry Burton creates a visual first-person narrative of one of modernity's greatest archeological finds. This exhibit gives viewers the feeling they're standing with...
- Two New Exhibitions In Chicago
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/060523.tut.shtml Thanks for the EEF News Digest (email version) for the above feature on the Oriental Institute website. Running from 23th May 2006 until 31st December 31 2006, are two new exhibitions at the Oriental...
- Opening The Tomb Of Tutankhamun - Photos Auctioned
http://search.sothebys.com/jsps/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=4DYYW On May 12th 142 press photographs of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter are going for sale by auction at Sotheby's. The photos were taken by by Harry Burton (1879-1940):...