Treasures of the Cairo Museum

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Treasures of the Cairo Museum FROM PREDYNASTIC TO ROMÁN TIMES Edward L. B. Terrace and Henry G. Fischer The greatest works of Egyptian art are housed in the Cairo Museum, which few Western art lovers are able to visit and which only rarely arranges loan exhibitions abroad. Now the Museum has allowed a wide selection of its treasures to be shown at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, as part of their centenary celebrations in 1970. The exhibition is alsó due to be shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1971. Dr Terrace, Associate Curator in the Department of Egyptian Art at the Boston Museum, has made the selection, which is illustrated in this book with a full descriptive catalogue. The catalogue has been compiled by Dr Terrace in cob laboration with Dr Henry G. Fischer, Curator of Egyptian Art at the Metrcv politan Museum. The choice ranges over 4000 years of activity, giving the reader the opportunity to study the full variety of... Tovább

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Treasures of the Cairo Museum FROM PREDYNASTIC TO ROMÁN TIMES Edward L. B. Terrace and Henry G. Fischer The greatest works of Egyptian art are housed in the Cairo Museum, which few Western art lovers are able to visit and which only rarely arranges loan exhibitions abroad. Now the Museum has allowed a wide selection of its treasures to be shown at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, as part of their centenary celebrations in 1970. The exhibition is alsó due to be shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1971. Dr Terrace, Associate Curator in the Department of Egyptian Art at the Boston Museum, has made the selection, which is illustrated in this book with a full descriptive catalogue. The catalogue has been compiled by Dr Terrace in cob laboration with Dr Henry G. Fischer, Curator of Egyptian Art at the Metrcv politan Museum. The choice ranges over 4000 years of activity, giving the reader the opportunity to study the full variety of Egyptian art and craftmanship from the earliest historic period to Román times, exemplifíed in a collection of masterpieces of which many have never before been seen outside Egypt. They include such marvels as the wooden panel from the tomb of Hesy'Ra (one of the finest examples of relief carving of the early Old Kingdom); the diorite statue of the Pharaoh Chephren (the builder of the Second Pyramid), which dates from shortly before 2540 bc; the colossal head of the Pharaoh Akhenaten from Karnak and many other great works of sculpture. We are alsó shown such exquisite examples of the minor arts as the Princess Khnumet's jewellery from Dahshur and the Book of the Dead of the Lady Here/ubekhet. This is indeed a book which will be indispensable to every lover of ancient Egyptian art. with 136 illustrations, including 8 colour plates and 7 line drawings Vissza