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Pedro Paulo, Egyptomania and me [PDF]
Heródoto, 2018 Special issue in honour to Professor Pedro Paulo Abreu ...
Margaret Marchiori Bakos
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Egyptomania in Modern Architectural History [PDF]
Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic ScienceEgyptomania has influenced many domains of Western culture. Since most of the ancient Egyptian heritage falls within the architectural heritage, Egyptomania has inspired the global architectural expression. The research study the impact of Egyptomania on
Hossam ElDin Moustafa ElNour Saleh
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THE HERSCHEL OBELISK, CLASSICS, AND EGYPTOMANIA AT THE CAPE
Akroterion, 2012 Immediately prior to his departure from Cape Town to England in 1838, Sir John Herschel sold the estate, ‘Feldhausen’,1 on which he had erected his telescope and had conducted his astronomical observations, to Mr. R. J. Jones, an auctioneer. The property
J.L. Hilton
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Tutankhamen, Egyptomania, and Temporal Enchantment in Interwar Britain
Twentieth Century British History, 2017 In 1923 or thereabouts, Britain fell under the ‘Tut-ankh-amen spell’. Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon’s discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922 prompted a new wave of popular interest in ancient Egypt that suffused British culture, casting Tutankhamen’s ‘spell’ over movies, music, mummies, and more.2 Reinvigorated ‘Egyptian’ styles in architecture ...
Fryxell, Allegra
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Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2022 In this paper, we propose the first study of the portrait of Auguste Mariette kept in the Château Comtal – Musée de Boulognesur- Mer (France). Painted by Florent Buret in 1899, the work pays tribute to the Egyptologist born in this city in 1821 ...
Michel Gutierrez
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Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2023 News of Carter’s discovery in the Valley of Kings was first transmitted by magazines and daily papers in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in late 1922, but the finds from Tutankhamun’s tomb continued to draw the public’s attention in the ...
Siniša Lekić
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Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2023 This paper argues that what advocates of the ontological turn refer to as the question of ontology cannot be understood without taking ideology into account. Enki Bilal’s comic book The Nikopol Trilogy (1980–1992) and the movie Immortel, ad vitam (2004)
Uroš Matić
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“Is Cleopatra Black?”: Examining Whiteness and the American New Woman
Humanities, 2021 In the 1920s and 1930s, conceptions of the “New Woman” and Egyptomania shaped American culture. Employing methods of critical race art history and material culture studies, I focus on a 1925 Callot Soeurs dress and silk pajamas (c.
Angelica J. Maier
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Bibliothecae.it, 2020 The rediscovery of the ancient Egyptian civilization is a distinctive feature of humanistic culture. This Egyptomania, which extends also to the seventeenth and the subsequent centuries, is well documented in early printed books and focuses on two ...
Antonella Brunelli
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Études et Travaux (Institute des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences), 2022 The University of Warsaw has a collection of ancient Egyptian objects, including four human mummies (200334 MNW, 236805/3 MNW, 236806 MNW, along with the mummy remains under two numbers KMS St. 0089 and KMS St. 0096 from the coffin 236804 MNW).
Wojciech Ejsmond, Marzena Ożarek-Szilke
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