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2) Egyptian art
Author
Series
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Egyptian art was a sacred, holy art. This world and the next were inextricably connected. The proximity of human beings and gods affected art, led to a unique style, and a canon of rules that retained its validity from the Old Kingdom to the Late Era.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids Jumbo, is an imprint of Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The ancient Egyptians were very creative. The art we can see today tells a story of how they lived and what they cared about. Readers will learn about ancient Egyptians artisans and artists and the pottery, paintings, jewelry, and glasswork they created thousands of years ago."--
Author
Series
Sweeney St. George mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The opening of a funerary art exhibit at Boston's Hapner Museum of Art goes swimmingly, until the museum's housekeeper is found murdered̮it seems sheinterrupted an attempted heist. The circumstances of her death recall a still unsolved theft that took the same museum by surprise more than two decades earlier. Sweeney and her detective friend, Tim Quinn, wonder if the two events are connected.
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Analyzing the modernist art movement that arose in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, Alex Dika Seggerman reveals how the visual arts were part of a multifaceted transnational modernism. While the work of diverse, major Egyptian artists during this era may have appeared to be secular, she argues, it reflected the subtle but essential inflection of Islam, as a faith, history, and lived experience, in the overarching...
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