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Egyptian art : the complete plates from "Monuments Égyptiens & Histoire de l'art Égyptien" = Ägyptische Kunst : sämtliche Tafeln aus "Monuments Égyptiens & Histoire de l'art Égyptien" = L'Art Égyptien : toutes les planches de "Monuments Égyptiens & Histoire de l'art Égyptien"

Title
Egyptian art : the complete plates from "Monuments Égyptiens & Histoire de l'art Égyptien" = Ägyptische Kunst : sämtliche Tafeln aus "Monuments Égyptiens & Histoire de l'art Égyptien" = L'Art Égyptien : toutes les planches de "Monuments Égyptiens & Histoire de l'art Égyptien" / Émile Prisse d'Avennes ; Essay by Salima Ikram, with a selection of original texts by Émile Prisse d'Avennes ; directed and produced by Benedikt Taschen ; [project management Mahros Allamezade ; editing chris Allen [and others] ; English translation, Mary Lawson, French translation, Jean-Franc̦ois Cornu, German translation, Renate Heckendorf].
Author
Prisse d'Avennes, 1807-1879
Publication
  • Köln : Taschen, [2014]
  • ©2014

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Additional Authors
  • Ikram, Salima
  • Taschen, Benedikt
  • Allamezade, Mahros
  • Allen, Chris
  • Lawson, Mary, 1946-
  • Cornu, Jean-François
  • Heckendorf, Renate
  • Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
  • Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
Description
422 pages : chiefly color illustrations, plans, color map; 44 x 32 cm
Summary
For forty years the French Orientalist, author, and artist Émile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) explored Egypt disguised as an Arab, using the name Idris Effendi. In 1844 Prisse d'Avennes travelled from Alexandria to France, where, three years later, he published Les Monuments egyptiens. The volume contains 51 plates - mainly chromolithographs, but also some color plates - based on drawings made during his years in Egypt. After again visiting North Africa, he returned to Paris in 1860 with the fruits of his numerous journeys - hundreds of folio drawings, photographs, sketches, plans, and 400 metres of bas-reliefs. Fascinated by the symmetry, complexity and opulence of Egyptian and Arabic art, he drew from his vast collection to create compilations of art and architecture, based on his study of original documents and historical, social, and religious context. His beautiful album of Egyptian art was published in its entirety in Paris in 1878 as L'Histoire de l'art egyptien containing 159 stunning plates. For this publication, these splendid illustrations of architecture, sculpture, paintings, and industrial arts, brilliantly conveying the history and variety of ancient Egypt's art and culture, are reproduced in facsimile and for the first time published together"--Publisher's description.
Alternative Title
  • Ägyptische Kunst
  • Art Égyptien
Subjects
Genre/Form
Catalogs.
Note
  • "The copies used for printing belong to Niedersächsische Staats - und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 409) and glossary.
Language (note)
  • Text in English, German, and French.
Contents
Émile Prisse d'Avennes and ancient Egypt / Salima Ikram -- Plates with commentaries : Egytpian monuments [and] History of Egyptian art.
Call Number
*R-ART Desk JQH 16-2
ISBN
  • 3836516470
  • 9783836516471
LCCN
2015487466
OCLC
880567083
Author
Prisse d'Avennes, 1807-1879, artist, author.
Title
Egyptian art : the complete plates from "Monuments Égyptiens & Histoire de l'art Égyptien" = Ägyptische Kunst : sämtliche Tafeln aus "Monuments Égyptiens & Histoire de l'art Égyptien" = L'Art Égyptien : toutes les planches de "Monuments Égyptiens & Histoire de l'art Égyptien" / Émile Prisse d'Avennes ; Essay by Salima Ikram, with a selection of original texts by Émile Prisse d'Avennes ; directed and produced by Benedikt Taschen ; [project management Mahros Allamezade ; editing chris Allen [and others] ; English translation, Mary Lawson, French translation, Jean-Franc̦ois Cornu, German translation, Renate Heckendorf].
Publisher
Köln : Taschen, [2014]
Copyright Date
©2014
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 409) and glossary.
Language
Text in English, German, and French.
Added Author
Ikram, Salima, contributor.
Taschen, Benedikt, contributor.
Allamezade, Mahros, contributor.
Allen, Chris, editor.
Lawson, Mary, 1946- translator.
Cornu, Jean-François, translator.
Heckendorf, Renate, translator.
Prisse d'Avennes, 1807-1879. Monuments Egyptiens, bas-reliefs, peintures, inscriptions etc., d'après les dessins exécutés sur les lieux.
Prisse d'Avennes, 1807-1879. Histoire de l'art Égyptien.
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen.
Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg.
Research Call Number
*R-ART Desk JQH 16-2
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