Traces the cultural developments of distinct periods in ancient Egyptian history through examples of architecture, sculpture, and artifacts

Egypt to the End of the Old Kingdom

ALDRED, Cyril

Science & Math

McGraw=Hill

Traces the history of ancient Egyptian sculpture, painting, and bas-relief and assesses its character, and the artists who created it

Egyptian Art (World Art Series)

History

Middle East

Oxford Univ. Pr.

"His eloquent ability to weave facts, insights and interpretations into a compulsively readable account sets his book far above the clogged texts that too often pass for art history."―The Times Educational Supplement Of the ancient art that has survived from the non-Classical world, that of Egypt makes a unique appeal. In this authoritative and splendidly illustrated guide Cyril Aldred surveys nearly 3000 years of Egyptian art and architecture, concentrating on the fine arts of painting and sculpture. 199 illustrations, 20 in color

Egyptian art, in the days of the pharaohs, 3100-320 BC (World of art)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Ancient Egypt in The Metropolitan Museum "Journal" Volumes 1-11 (1968-1976)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

For the first time in a single volume, nearly 200 priceless objects from collections all over the world. Diadems, armlets, earrings, pendants, rings, bracelets, breastplates, amulets ...wrought in the rare and precious gems and metals that have stirred man's greed and wonder for centuries...Nubian gold, vivid lapis lazuli, bright-colored camelian. Cyril Aldred, one of the world's foremost Egyptologists, tells their enchanting and dramatic story...the myths and legends, the discoveries and thefts, that have marked each treasure's history. He explains the fascinating uses and significance of Egyptian jewels and describes the amazing techniques that created them.

Jewels of the Pharaohs: Egyptian Jewelry of the Dynastic Period

Ballantine Books

Only a small amount of Egyptian jewelry has survived the ravages of time and the grave robbers, but the remnant is staggeringly beautiful. This book presents for the first time in a single volume nearly 200 priceless objects from collections all over the world. The best known example is the virtually intact tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun, discovered in 1922, but there are many other colections and individual pieces extant: diadems, armlets, pendants, rings, bracelets, earrings, buckles, breastplates, necklaces, amulets - wrought in Nubian gold, lapis lazuli, brilliant colored faience and blood red carnelian. These opulent jeweled pieces, many modelled after organic forms such as vultures, cobras, falcons, lotus flowers, scarab beetles and winged half-human goddesses, are among the most splendid objects of Egyptian antiquity.Cyril Aldred's lively text covers the enchanting story of each piece, including misdeeds and discoveries both ancient and modern. He explains the fascinating uses and significance of Egyptian jewels, the materials, and the techniques used to transform these materials into the exquisitely decorative trappings of wealth for kings and queens.Mr. Aldred's text, which covers the finest pieces from every major find, is illustrated throughout with line drawings in addition to photographs, many in brilliant color, taken under special conditions in the Cairo Museum by Albert Shoucair. As one prominent Egyptologist noted, Jewels of the Pharaohs is unequalled in its comprehensiveness and destined to be a standard for generations.

Jewels of the Pharaohs: Egyptian jewelry of the Dynastic Period

Surveys the progress of Egyptian civilization by concentrating on the twin themes of the Nile and Egypt's natural resources and the influences of Egypt's god incarnate, the pharaoh.

The Egyptians: Ancient Peoples and Places

Ancient Civilizations

Thames and Hudson

Surveys the progress of Egyptian civilization by centering on the twin themes of the Nile and Egypt's natural resources and the influences of Egypt's god incarnate, the Pharaoh

Egyptians (Ancient Peoples & Places)

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Recent archaeological studies form the basis of this work on the fourteenth-century B.C. civilization dominated by Akhenaten

Akhenaten: King of Egypt

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Thames&Hudson

"His eloquent ability to weave facts, insights and interpretations into a compulsively readable account sets his book far above the clogged texts that too often pass for art history."―The Times Educational Supplement Of the ancient art that has survived from the non-Classical world, that of Egypt makes a unique appeal. In this authoritative and splendidly illustrated guide Cyril Aldred surveys nearly 3000 years of Egyptian art and architecture, concentrating on the fine arts of painting and sculpture. 199 illustrations, 20 in color

Egyptian art in the days of the pharaohs, 3100-320 BC

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