Download or read book Objects for Eternity written by Carol A. R. Andrews and published by Philipp Von Zabern. This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume publishes more than 200 objects from the private collections of W Arnold Meijer, making them available for the first time to the general public. Accompanying texts by a team of renowned scholars explain in an exemplary manner how ancient Egyptian artists worked stone, wood, glass, bronze, and other materials into unique pieces of art. Other texts tell about the function and use of these objects in everyday life and link their imagery to the mythology and the gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt.

Download or read book Animating the Antique written by Sarah Betzer and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2022-08-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Framed by tensions between figural sculpture experienced in the round and its translation into two-dimensional representations, Animating the Antique explores enthralling episodes in a history of artistic and aesthetic encounters. Moving across varied locations—among them Rome, Florence, Naples, London, Dresden, and Paris—Sarah Betzer explores a history that has yet to be written: that of the Janus-faced nature of interactions with the antique by which sculptures and beholders alike were caught between the promise of animation and the threat of mortification. Examining the traces of affective and transformative sculptural encounters, the book takes off from the decades marked by the archaeological, art-historical, and art-philosophical developments of the mid-eighteenth century and culminantes in fin de siècle anthropological, psychological, and empathic frameworks. It turns on two fundamental and interconnected arguments: that an eighteenth-century ontology of ancient sculpture continued to inform encounters with the antique well into the nineteenth century, and that by attending to the enduring power of this model, we can newly appreciate the distinctively modern terms of antique sculpture’s allure. As Betzer shows, these eighteenth-century developments had far-reaching ramifications for the making and beholding of modern art, the articulations of art theory, the writing of art history, and a significantly queer Nachleben of the antique. Bold and wide-ranging, Animating the Antique sheds light upon the work of myriad artists, in addition to that of writers ranging from Goethe and Winckelmann to Hegel, Walter Pater, and Vernon Lee. It will be especially welcomed by scholars and students working in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art history, art writing, and art historiography.

Download or read book The Antiquities Trade in Egypt 1880 1930 written by Fredrik Hagen and published by Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. This book was released on 2016 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast collections of Egyptian objects on display in Western museums attract millions of visitors every year, and they reinforce a cultural fascination for this ancient civilisation that has been a feature of European intellectual history since Roman times. This book tells the story of how these objects came to be here. The book presents the first in-depth analysis of this market during its golden age in Egypt in the late 19th and early 20th Century. It is primarily based on the archival material of the Danish Egyptologist H. O. Lange (1863-1943) who, during two prolonged stays in Egypt (1899/1900 and 1929/1930), bought objects on behalf of Danish museums. The travel diaries, and the accompanying photographs, are complemented by a wide range of other sources, including contemporary travel guides and various travel memoirs, which together paint an extraordinarily detailed picture of the extensive antiquities trade. The book looks at the laws governing trade and export, both in theory and practice, and the changes over time. The practicalities of the trade are described: its seasons, the networks of supply, the various methods available for acquiring antiquities, and the subsequent routes of transmission of objects, as well as the different types of dealers operating in Egypt. The geographical distribution of dealers is mapped, and the role of the Egyptian state as a dealer is investigated, both through official sale rooms, and as a seller and exporter of more or less complete tomb-chapels. The final part of the book contains a list, with short biographies, of over 250 dealers active in Egypt from the 1880s until the abolishment of the trade in 1983. Most of them are described here in detail for the first time. The book will be of interest to archaeologists, Egyptologists, papyrologists, museum curators, and historians of science, and is a useful starting point for anyone wishing to understand how the great Western collections of Egyptian antiquities were formed.

Download or read book Library of Congress Catalogs written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Classical Antiquities written by Johann Joachim Eschenburg and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mastai s Classified Directory of American Art Antique Dealers written by Bolesław Mastai and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogues of Sales written by Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mastai s Classified Directory of American Art and Antique Dealers written by Boleshaw Mastai and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Library of Congress Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.

Download or read book Catalogue of Egyptian Funerary Papyri in Danish Collections written by Thomas Christiansen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Carlsberg Papyri, vol. 13, presents an exhaustive catalogue of Egyptian funerary manuscripts in Danish collections. The volume includes sixteen papyrus manuscripts, two of which are preserved intact, and smaller pieces of inscribed linen from six mummies. The material spans a period of more than a millennium, ranging from c. 1200 BC to AD 100. Most of the manuscripts are guides to the afterlife; eighteen of them contain texts and vignettes from the Book of the Dead, while a minor fragment preserves an illustration from the Book of Amduat. The three remaining manuscripts has previously been published.

Download or read book Bronze Priests of Ancient Egypt from the Middle Kingdom to the Graeco Roman Period written by Barbara Mendoza and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 2008 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A California doctoral dissertation examining the bronze statues of non-royal figures. The catalogue includes 289 located examples and a further 50 from published sources. The author considers the changes in the figures over time, their changing types, stance, iconography, size, composition, and their inscriptions.

Download or read book The Lost Manuscript of Fr d ric Cailliaud written by Frédéric Cailliaud and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The travel accounts of Frédéric Cailliaud were an important early contribution to the birth of Egyptology in the first half of the nineteenth century. But one of his major works was never published. For the first time here, his exquisite color plates are presented alongside a translation of his original French text. Arriving in Egypt in 1815, Cailliaud made copious notes on the flora and fauna, people and antiquities, and took a collection of over two thousand objects back to France. His beautifully rendered watercolors of scenes on ancient Egyptian tombs and temples show animated scenes of ancient daily life.

Download or read book Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts Reliefs and Paintings Objects of provenance not known pt 4 Stelae Dynasty XVIII to the Roman Period 803 044 050 to 803 099 990 written by Bertha Porter and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalog of the Oriental Institute Library University of Chicago written by University of Chicago. Oriental Institute. Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Analysis of the Life form in Art written by Harrison Allen and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of Art in Chald a Assyria written by Georges Perrot and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: