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Book Synopsis Ancient Egyptian Statues by : Simon Connor
Download or read book Ancient Egyptian Statues written by Simon Connor and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, richly illustrated study of the role and significance of ancient statues in Egyptian history and belief Why do ancient Egyptian statues so often have their noses, hands, or genitals broken? Although the Late Antiquity period appears to have been one of the major moments of large-scale vandalism against pagan monuments, various contexts bear witness to several phases of reuse, modification, or mutilation of statues throughout and after the pharaonic period. Reasons for this range from a desire to erase the memory of specific rulers or individuals for ideological reasons to personal vengeance, war, tomb plundering, and the avoidance of a curse; or simply the reuse of material for construction or the need to ritually “deactivate” and bury old statues, without the added motive of explicit hostility toward the subject in question. Drawing on the latest scholarship and over 100 carefully selected illustrations, Ancient Egyptian Statues proceeds from a general discussion of the production and meaning of sculptures, and the mechanisms of their destruction, to review the role of ancient statuary in Egyptian history and belief. It then moves on to explore the various means of damage and their significance, and the role of restoration and reuse. Art historian Simon Connor offers an innovative and lucidly written reflection on beliefs and practices relating to statuary, and images more broadly, in ancient Egypt, showing how statues were regarded as the active manifestations of the entities they represented, and the ways in which they could endure many lives before being finally buried or forgotten.
Book Synopsis Public Statues Across Time and Cultures by : Christopher P. Dickenson
Download or read book Public Statues Across Time and Cultures written by Christopher P. Dickenson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which statues have been experienced in public in different cultures and the role that has been played by statues in defining publicness itself. The meaning of public statues is examined through discussion of their appearance and their spatial context and of written discourses having to do with how they were experienced. Bringing together experts working on statues in different cultures, the book sheds light on similarities and differences in the role that public statues had in different times and places throughout history. The book will also provide insight into the diverse methods and approaches that scholars working on these different periods use to investigate statues. The book will appeal to historians, art historians and archaeologists of all periods who have an interest in the display of sculpture, the reception of public art or the significance of public monuments.
Download or read book Gifts for the Gods written by Marsha Hill and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout their long history, the ancient Egyptians crafted exquisite statues of bronze, copper, silver and gold as offerings to their gods and for use in temples and shrines. This title focuses on the art and significance of Egyptian metal statuary, presenting insights and up-to-date information on this precious work.
Book Synopsis Royal Statues in Egypt 300 BC-AD 220 by : Elizabeth Brophy
Download or read book Royal Statues in Egypt 300 BC-AD 220 written by Elizabeth Brophy and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to approach Ptolemaic and Imperial royal sculpture in Egypt dating between 300 BC and AD 220 from a contextual point of view. To collect together the statuary items that are identifiably royal and have a secure archaeological context, within Egypt.
Download or read book Egyptian Statues written by Gay Robins and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over three thousand years, ancient Egyptian sculptors created statues of deities, kings and elite officials and their families. These were set up mainly in temples or tombs and played a vital role in temple and funerary ritual, being places where non-physical entities - deities, the royal ka-spirit and the ka-spirits of the dead - could manifest themselves in this world. The book begins by examining the materials and techniques employed by sculptors and the various statue types and poses that occur. Next it explores the function of statues and the different contexts for which they were made. This is followed by a chapter explaining the notion of the ideal image: statues were not intended to be exact likenesses but rather ideal images reflecting the identity, role and status of the subject. The individual identity of a statue was usually provided by inscriptions, and the various texts found on statues are discussed together with the different types of relief decoration that occur on statue surfaces. A final chapter considers what was constant and what changed over time and looks at the influence that Egyptian statues had on the origins of monumental Greek sculpture.
Book Synopsis Egyptian Sculptures in the British Museum by : British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities
Download or read book Egyptian Sculptures in the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Egyptian Sculpture by : Edna R. Russmann
Download or read book Egyptian Sculpture written by Edna R. Russmann and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows the development and variations of ancient Egyptian sculptural styles over a period of almost 3,000 years with detailed commentary on each piece.
Book Synopsis Egyptian Statues by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Download or read book Egyptian Statues written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Egyptian Sculpture by : Thomas Garnet Henry James
Download or read book Egyptian Sculpture written by Thomas Garnet Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the awe-inspring stone colossi of the kings of the delightful small bronze cats, the Egyptian sculptors showed a mastery of form and serenity of style which has never been surpassed. This concise, illustrated survey of 3000 years of Eyptian sculpture is based on the great collections of the British Museum. Why and how this immense range of sculpture was made, and the paths by which so many splendid examples reached the Museum, form the intrduction to this book. The authors go on to describe many of the finest sculptures in the collections, most of which can now be seen in the Egtptian Sculpture Gallery.
Book Synopsis Egyptian Statues by : Nora Elizabeth Scott
Download or read book Egyptian Statues written by Nora Elizabeth Scott and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Manual of Ancient Sculpture, Egyptian - Assyrian - Greek - Roman by : George Redford
Download or read book A Manual of Ancient Sculpture, Egyptian - Assyrian - Greek - Roman written by George Redford and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eternal Egypt written by Edna R. Russmann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts and The British Museum and drawn exclusively from the collection of The British Museum, which is among the finest in the world. Illustrated with images of the works in the exhibition, as well as comparative materials, Eternal Egypt is that rare book of interest and value to the general and scholarly audience alike."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Egyptian Statues and Statuettes by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Download or read book Egyptian Statues and Statuettes written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Egyptian Statues written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sculpture, Egyptian-Assyrian-Greek-Roman by : George Redford
Download or read book Sculpture, Egyptian-Assyrian-Greek-Roman written by George Redford and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100-480 B.C. by : Jeffrey M. Hurwit
Download or read book The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100-480 B.C. written by Jeffrey M. Hurwit and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handsomely illustrated book offers a broad synthesis of Archaic Greek culture. Unlike other books dealing with the art and architecture of the Archaic period, it places these subjects in their historical, social, literary, and intellectual contexts. Origins and originality constitute a central theme, for during this period representational and narrative art, monumental sculpture and architecture, epic, lyric, and dramatic poetry, the city-state (polis), tyranny and early democracy, and natural philosophy were all born.
Book Synopsis The Triumph and Trade of Egyptian Objects in Rome by : Stephanie Pearson
Download or read book The Triumph and Trade of Egyptian Objects in Rome written by Stephanie Pearson and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From gleaming hardstone statues to bright frescoes, the unexpected and often spectacular Egyptian objects discovered in Roman Italy have long presented an interpretive challenge. How they shaped and were shaped by religion, politics, and identity formation has now been well researched. But one crucial function of these objects remains to be explored: their role as precious goods in a collector’s economy. The Romans imported and recreated Egyptian goods in the most opulent materials available – gold, gems, expensive wood, ivory, luxurious textiles – and displayed them like true treasures. This is due in part to the way Romans encountered these items, as argued in this book: first as dazzling spolia from the war against Cleopatra, then as costly wares exchanged over the expanding Roman trade routes. In this respect, Romans treated Egyptian art surprisingly similarly to Greek art. By examining the concrete mechanisms through which Egyptian objects were acquired and displayed in Rome, this book offers a new understanding of this impressive material at the crossroads of Hellenistic, Roman, and Egyptian culture.
