The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt (Pelican History of Art series)

Smith, W Stevenson

ISBN 10: 0140560149 / ISBN 13: 9780140560145

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, USA

About this Item

xii, 298pp; fully illustrated in-text. Cream cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine, yellow endpapers; slipcase. 4to. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. Dust jacket excellent. Light card slipcase has some tape repairs.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt (Pelican History of Art series)
• Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, USA
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140560149
• ISBN 13: 9780140560145
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • History - Ancient
  • Art
  • Architecture

About this title

Synopsis

The civilization of Ancient Egypt extended from the fourth millennium BC to the conquest of Alexander. The Egyptians in their tombs recreated life for the dead in a naturalistic way, often against the background of the landscape in which they lived. They also left revealing portraits ranging from the civil servants of the kings to the kings and queens themselves who built the pyramids at Giza and Saqqara; the tombs at Thebes, including the treasure-filled burial-place of Tut-ankh-amon; the temples of Luxor and Karnak and the palaces of Akhenaten at Tell el Amarna and of Amenhotep III at Thebes. These monuments with their decoration as well as many other works of art are reproduced in over 400 illustrations. Appendices deal with Scottish architecture before the union and buildings in the 13 colonies of America.

About the Author

The late W. Stevenson Smith was curator of the Egyptian Department of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. William Kelly Simpson succeeded W. Stevenson Smith in that position. He is also professor of Egyptology at Yale University and co-director of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt.