luxor museum

luxor museum
Author: abeer el shahawy
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The Luxor Museum houses a fine collection of Egyptian antiquities that is beautifully exhibited. This illustrated volume highlights some of the masterpieces found in ancient Thebes. There are glorious examples of ancient artifacts from tombs and temples in Karnak and Luxor, and the Deir al-Bahari mummy cache. Middle Kingdom statues depict the pharaohs who made Thebes their political capital and Amun the king of the gods. The New Kingdom brings statues and artifacts from the time of the great pharaohs such as Ahmose, Hatshepsut, and Thutmosis III. Akhenaten and the revolutionary Amarna art, and the famous boy king Tutankhamun, are present too.

The Quest for Immortality

The Quest for Immortality
Author: Erik Hornung
Publisher:
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN:

"This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before the Christian era. Objects such as coffins, tombs, masks, jewellery, papyri, sarcophagi and monumental and small-scale sculpture reveal the reverence and awe with which the Egyptians considered the mystery of death. The essays in this book explore Egyptian art history, customs and worship, with specific focus on the Amduat, a book devoted to the pharaoh's 12-hour journey to the afterlife. Additional writings detail the background of the collection and focus upon the role of art in ancient Egypt."--Amazon.

A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art

A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art
Author: Melinda K. Hartwig
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 636
Release: 2014-11-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 144433350X

A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art presents a comprehensive collection of original essays exploring key concepts, critical discourses, and theories that shape the discipline of ancient Egyptian art. • Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award for Single Volume Reference in the Humanities & Social Sciences • Features contributions from top scholars in their respective fields of expertise relating to ancient Egyptian art • Provides overviews of past and present scholarship and suggests new avenues to stimulate debate and allow for critical readings of individual art works • Explores themes and topics such as methodological approaches, transmission of Egyptian art and its connections with other cultures, ancient reception, technology and interpretation, • Provides a comprehensive synthesis on a discipline that has diversified to the extent that it now incorporates subjects ranging from gender theory to ‘X-ray fluorescence’ and ‘image-based interpretations systems’

Art of Ancient Egypt

Art of Ancient Egypt
Author: Edith Whitney Watts
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 185
Release: 1998
Genre: Art, Ancient
ISBN: 0870998536

"[A] comprehensive resource, which contains texts, posters, slides, and other materials about outstanding works of Egyptian art from the Museum's collection"--Welcome (preliminary page).

Egyptian Wall Paintings

Egyptian Wall Paintings
Author: Charles Kyrle Wilkinson
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 167
Release: 1983
Genre: Metropolitan Museum of Art - Egipto - Catalogo
ISBN: 0870993259

Hatshepsut, from Queen to Pharaoh

Hatshepsut, from Queen to Pharaoh
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2005
Genre: Architecture, Egyptian
ISBN: 1588391736

A fascinating look at the artistically productive reign of Hatshepsut, a female pharaoh in ancient Egypt