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Author : Georg Ebers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Egypt
ISBN : HARVARD:32044050776210
Author : Georg Ebers
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0265872235
Excerpt from The Hellenic Portraits From the Fayum at Present in the Collection of Herr Graf With Some Remarks on Other Works of This Class, at Berlin and Elsewhere, Newly Studied and Appreciated Herr Graf's agents can give us at least some gen eral information as to the locale of their discovery. These portraits, like the papyri lately become famous, were all found in the district now known as the Fayum, the extensive oasis fertilized by a branch of the Nile with its numerous channels, which lies beyond the Libyan mountain range on the west of the great Nile Valley, a stretch of pasture and orchard land between 29° and 30° north latitude. A branch line of railway, dividing from the main line to Upper Egypt at Wasta, now runs through the heart of the province, which is famous for the production of sugar cane, vegetables. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Georg Ebers,Theodor Graf
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1298509785
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : GEORG. EBERS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033343366
Author : G. Ebers
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781141848799
With some remarks on other works of this class at Berlin and elsewhere.
Author : Euphrosyne Doxiadis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-10-15
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015038447135
In the first three centuries A.D., in a fertile district of Roman Egypt called the Fayum, a diverse community of Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Syrians, Libyans, Nubians, and Jews flourished. These people, and many of their contemporaries throughout the Nile Valley, embalmed the bodies of their dead and then placed over the faces portraits painted on wooden panels or linen. These paintings, today known as Fayum, or mummy, portraits, were created to preserve the memory of each individual. The Fayum portraits are by far the most important body of portraiture to have survived antiquity. Reproduced in this arresting book are some 180 of the finest of the more than 1,000 extant images - of men, women, and children, young and old, plain and beautiful - all of whom seem uncannily alive. A few of these faces have become familiar to scholars and museum-goers, but as a whole they have been neglected by art historians and will be new to most readers.
Author : Euphrosyne Doxiadis,Rosemary Tzanaki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Icon painting
ISBN : 9607970888
Author : Susan Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136694882
From the first major discoveries a century ago, the painted portraits of Roman Egypt were a revelation to scholars and the public alike, and the recent finding of a new cache of these gilded images, which made national headlines, have only heightened their mystery and appeal. Published to coincide with a new major exhibition of these portraits, Ancient Faces is the most comprehensive, up-to-date survey of these astonishing works of art. Dating from the later period of Roman rule in Egypt, shortly before the birth of Christ, the painted mummy portraits are among the most remarkable products of the ancient world, a fusion of the traditions of pharonic Egypt and the Classical world. They are historical and cultural objects of outstanding importance and beauty, superb works of art that represent some of the earliest known examples of life-like portraiture. Though the subjects of the portraits believed in the traditional Egyptian cults, which offered them a firm prospect of life after death, they also wished to be commemorated in the Roman manner, with their fashion of dress and adornment signaling their status in life. Despite their ancient history, these portraits speak to the modern eye with a beauty and intensity that would be lost to portraiture until the Renaissance.
Author : Graham Speake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2407 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135942137
Hellenism is the living culture of the Greek-speaking peoples and has a continuing history of more than 3,500 years. The Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition contains approximately 900 entries devoted to people, places, periods, events, and themes, examining every aspect of that culture from the Bronze Age to the present day. The focus throughout is on the Greeks themselves, and the continuities within their own cultural tradition. Language and religion are perhaps the most obvious vehicles of continuity; but there have been many others--law, taxation, gardens, music, magic, education, shipping, and countless other elements have all played their part in maintaining this unique culture. Today, Greek arts have blossomed again; Greece has taken its place in the European Union; Greeks control a substantial proportion of the world's merchant marine; and Greek communities in the United States, Australia, and South Africa have carried the Hellenic tradition throughout the world. This is the first reference work to embrace all aspects of that tradition in every period of its existence.
Author : William Carruthers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135014575
Histories of Egyptology are increasingly of interest: to Egyptologists, archaeologists, historians, and others. Yet, particularly as Egypt undergoes a contested process of political redefinition, how do we write these histories, and what (or who) are they for? This volume addresses a variety of important themes, the historical involvement of Egyptology with the political sphere, the manner in which the discipline stakes out its professional territory, the ways in which practitioners represent Egyptological knowledge, and the relationship of this knowledge to the public sphere. Histories of Egyptology provides the basis to understand how Egyptologists constructed their discipline. Yet the volume also demonstrates how they construct ancient Egypt, and how that construction interacts with much wider concerns: of society, and of the making of the modern world.
Author : Marie Svoboda,Caroline Cartwright
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606066539
This publication presents fascinating new findings on ancient Romano-Egyptian funerary portraits preserved in international collections. Once interred with mummified remains, nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums around the world, bringing viewers face-to-face with people who lived two thousand years ago. Until recently, few of these paintings had undergone in-depth study to determine by whom they were made and how. An international collaboration known as APPEAR (Ancient Panel Paintings: Examination, Analysis, and Research) was launched in 2013 to promote the study of these objects and to gather scientific and historical findings into a shared database. The first phase of the project was marked with a two-day conference at the Getty Villa. Conservators, scientists, and curators presented new research on topics such as provenance and collecting, comparisons of works across institutions, and scientific studies of pigments, binders, and supports. The papers and posters from the conference are collected in this publication, which offers the most up-to-date information available about these fascinating remnants of the ancient world. The free online edition of this open-access publication is available at www.getty.edu/publications/mummyportraits/ and includes zoomable illustrations and graphs. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book.
Author : Debbie Challis
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472502209
How much was archaeology founded on prejudice? The Archaeology of Race explores the application of racial theory to interpret the past in Britain during the late Victorian and Edwardian period. It investigates how material culture from ancient Egypt and Greece was used to validate the construction of racial hierarchies. Specifically focusing on Francis Galton's ideas around inheritance and race, it explores how the Egyptologist Flinders Petrie applied these in his work in Egypt and in his political beliefs. It examines the professional networks formed by societies, such as the Anthropological Institute, and their widespread use of eugenic ideas in analysing society. Archaeology of Race draws on archives and objects from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and the Galton collection at UCL. These collections are used to explore anti-Semitism, skull collecting, New Race theory and physiognomy. These collections give insight into the relationship between Galton and Petrie and place their ideas in historical context.
Author : David L. Thompson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892360383
These extraordinary Egyptian images produced from Julio-Claudian times through the age of Constantine (the first four centuries A.D.), seem often to have been commissioned while the subject was still alive and displayed in the home. At death, the portrait was inserted into the deceased’s mummy wrappings. Thirteen mummy portraits from the Getty Museum’s collection are catalogued in this text by Dr. David Thompson, professor of Classics at Howard University. Placing the works in the context of other so-called Fayum paintings, Dr. Thompson examines their importance as portraits and identifies the hands of individual painters. Numerous illustrations accompany his discussion.
Author : James Fenton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226241470
List of IllustrationsIntroduction and AcknowledgmentsOn StatuesThe Mummy's SecretPisanello: The Best of Both WorldsVerrocchio: The New CiceroneLeonardo's NephewBernini at Harvard/Chicago BaroqueWho Was Thomas Jones?Degas in the EveningDegas in ChicagoSeurat and the SewersThe Secrets of MaillolBecoming PicassoJoseph Cornell: "Monuments to Every Moment"Rauschenberg: The Voracious EgoJohns: A Banner with a Strange DeviceNotesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Greece
ISBN : HARVARD:32044018078220
