Egyptian Wall Paintings - Rilegato

Tiradritti, Francesco

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0789210053 ISBN 13: 9780789210050

Casa editrice: Abbeville Pr, 2008

Riassunto

A fascinating study of ancient Egyptian wall art, featuring full-page illustrations on matte paper specially designed to re-create the texture of the paintings themselves.

Ancient Egyptian civilization developed its own highly individual manner of expressing visible and invisible worlds earth and the domain of the gods through distinctive languages.” These languages included both two-dimensional portrayals (paintings and painted reliefs) and three-dimensional figures forms that each must be skillfully deciphered in order to grasp its overt and covert meanings.

Egyptian Wall Painting focuses on two-dimensional depictions in ancient Egypt, examining them as part of an elaborate code that was designed to maintain the Maat or Cosmic Order, Truth-Justice, and Universal Harmony and that figured intimately in Egyptian lives and beliefs. The text conducts this examination through two different lenses: that of Western rational analysis, with its emphasis on methods and techniques, and that of ancient Egyptian spirituality, which these complex works have handed down to our own time. Accordingly, the first section of the book analyzes the technology, techniques, history, and cultural context of Egyptian art, while the second compares selected monumental works across different periods and places, detailing their artistic and spiritual significance.

Handsomely illustrated with 350 color plates, including numerous full-page details printed on a special matte paper designed to simulate the feel of the stuccoed limestone on which the original images were painted, Egyptian Wall Painting illuminates an art, language, and culture of extraordinary richness.

As the definitive treatment of its subject, Egyptian Wall Painting is sure to appeal to art historians, Egyptologists, linguists, and connoisseurs interested in one of history’s most complex and influential civilizations.

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Recensione:

If you are looking for a book to set the BM's redisplayed tomb paintings of Nebamun (Room 61) in context you could hardly do better than this sumptuously illustrated survey. --British Museum Magazine, Spring/Summer 2009

L'autore:

Francesco Tiradritti has served since 1990 as scientific advisor to the Civiche Raccolte Archeologiche (Municipal Archaeological Museum) of Milan. He is the leader of the Italian archaeological mission to Luxor, which explores the tomb of Harua, and has created numerous exhibitions and authored many publications on Egyptological themes, including Egyptian Treasures from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Abbeville Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0789210053
• ISBN 13: 9780789210050
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 391
• Redattore: Malta Megan, Allen Austin, Appellof Marian