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Egyptian Art

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By (author): Bill Manley Cyril Aldred

The art and architecture of Egypt during the age of the pharaohs continue to capture the imagination of the modern world. Vivid, graceful forms decorating monuments that emanated ambition and authority spark our wonder about this distant culture. Ever youthful and elegant men and women encounter odd, animal-headed gods and monsters amid scenes of work and leisure, in a paradise of plain, bright colours, where hieroglyphic texts hint at grand ideas. The tombs and temples of ancient Egypt seem to reveal how art and monumental building first flowered at the heart of civilization, and the many ways in which they may adorn and articulate the human condition, and our relationships with the eternal and our time on earth.

Among the great creative achievements of ancient Egypt we discover a set of constant forms: archetypes in art and architecture, which state clearly and concisely the contemporary view of authority, divinity, beauty and meaning. Whether adapted to fine, delicate jewellery or colossal statues, these forms maintain a human face with human ideas and emotions as their explicit inspiration. These artistic templates, and the ideas they articulated, were refined and reinvented through dozens of centuries, until scenes first created for the earliest kings, around 3000 BC, were eventually used to represent Roman emperors and the last officials of pre-Christian Egypt. Bill Manleys account of the art of ancient Egypt draws on the finest works of a uniquely successful and enduringly compelling civilization through more than 3,000 years, including celebrated masterpieces, from the Narmer palette to Tutankhamuns gold mask, as well as their contexts of origin in the tombs, temples and palaces of the pharaohs and their citizens. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 670g
  • Dimensions: 150 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Nov 2017
  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780500204283

About Bill ManleyCyril Aldred

Bill Manley is an Egyptologist university lecturer museum curator and best-selling author. He teaches Egyptology and Coptic at the University of Glasgow and is Co-Director of Egiptología Complutense Honorary President of Egyptology Scotland and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. He was formerly Senior Curator for Ancient Egypt at National Museums Scotland and continues to work with archaeological projects in Egypt. His specialist output includes books catalogues articles and exhibitions covering such diverse subjects as ancient texts the history of Egyptology gold jewelry the archaeology of Palestine and the worlds earliest philosophy.

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