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BL 2400 - 2450 - Ancient Egyptian religion and deities
DT 56 - 100 - Ancient Egypt and antiquities
N 5335 - 5336 - Ancient Egyptian art
PJ 1015 - 1949 - Egyptian language and writing
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Gold of the Pharaohs by
Henri Stierlin offers the reader a glimpse of how the Egyptian pharaohs used gold and considered it to be the "flesh of the Gods". He explains the techniques used in making artefacts and the book contains 200 full colour illustrations of their art.
Egypt by
Beginning in the fifth millennium BC, the land that is now Egypt nurtured an extraordinary pioneering civilization whose art and architecture have never lost their power to amaze. This magnificent picture book presents a carefully chosen sequence of masterpieces, ranging in date from c.4000 BC to c.200 AD, by which time Egypt was a province of the Roman Empire. All media are represented, from monumental architecture to exquisite jewellery and personal ornaments. At any scale, Egyptian art has an immediate appeal for its beauty and consummate craftsmanship, and the works illustrated in this book can all be enjoyed for both their aesthetic qualities and their artefactual rarity. But they are also products of a culture very different from ours, and in his concise introduction Jaromir Malek, a foremost authority, provides the essential background for understanding why Egyptian art and architecture took the forms they did. The explanations continue in the informative captions to each illustration, and the chronological chart, map, bibliography and index make quick reference a pleasure. Embracing architecture, painting, sculpture, ceramics, metalwork and jewellery, the illustrations are all masterpieces that can be enjoyed in their own right. Presented in chronological order, they form a succinct and easily digestible history. This is an astoundingly fresh, mesmerizing and accessible introduction to some of the most remarkable art ever produced in the history of humankind.
An Egyptian Bestiary by
Of all the world's early civilizations, it was ancient Egypt that fostered the closest relationship with the animal world. All aspects of life, both secular and sacred, gave prominent place to man's vital involvement with living creatures of every kind. Peasant and craftsman, ruler and priest treated animals not as mere utilitarian objects, but as symbols of creation equal in the hierarchy of life to humans themselves and closely tied both to everyday existence and to the realm of the gods. The magnificent photographs in this volume show the incomparable richness of the Pharaonic fauna in all forms of artistic expression -- painting, sculpture, relief carving, architectural ornamentation, and even in hieroglyphs. They range from astonishing realism in the depiction of birds and beasts, both wild and domesticated, useful and harmful, with which the people of the Nile Valley came into daily contact, to hieratic stylization in portraying the pantheon of animal-headed gods and the sacred and fabulous creatures that inhabited their devotional, funerary and magic world. The scholarly descriptions and informative captions that accompany this amazing bestiary place each animal depicted in its proper context in relation to man, to the environment, and to the gods. From geese to monkeys, crocodiles to scorpions, the list is virtually endless, while the superb artistry and extraordinary range of the subject matter will open the eyes of Egyptologists and naturalists alike to a subject that has never previously been so superbly displayed and explained.
Pharoahs of the Sun by
The setting : history, religion, and art / W. Raymond Johnson -- The beginning of the heresy / Donald B. Redford -- The city of Amarna / Peter Lacovara -- The sacred landscape / Michael Mallinson -- The royal family / Nicholas Reeves -- The new religion / John L. Foster -- Art in the service of religion and the state / Rita E. Freed -- Crafts and industries at Amarna / Yvonne J. Markowitz and Peter Lacovara -- Administering Akhenaten's Egypt / Peter Der Manuelian -- The spoken and written word / David P. Silverman -- Foreign relations / Timothy Kendall -- Preparing for eternity / Sue H. D'Auria -- The return to orthodoxy / William J. Murnane -- Akhenaten's artistic legacy / Rita E. Freed.
Dawn of Egyptian Art by
The cultural icons of Pharaonic Egypt, from the Great Sphinx at Giza to the famous burial of Tutankhamun, are among the world's most renowned works of art. Less well known, but equally impressive, are the rare and ancient images of people, animals, and landscapes made by the Egyptians who lived prior to the age of the pharaohs, when the formal conventions of Egyptian art had not yet fully evolved. With illustrations of more than 180 objects created from about 4000 to 2650 BC, Dawn of Egyptian Art presents the art forms and iconography in which the early Egyptians recorded their beliefs about the land where they lived, the yearly events that took place there, and what they thought was important to the eternal survival of their world. Comprehensive texts explore the origins and early development of the culture of ancient Egypt while discussing the relationship between image and writing as well as the representation of the self and the universe.