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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 ...
Allegra Fryxell
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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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Music-Historical Egyptomania, 1650–1950 [PDF]
Journal of the History of Ideas, 2014 Starting with Athanasius Kircher in the seventeenth century, it became de rigueur for music histories to include a discussion of Ancient Egypt’s musical contribution. This is striking, considering that no notated sources of ancient Egyptian music exist. Due to stringent cultural demands, Egypt became an indispensable component of music histories in
Alexander Rehding
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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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, 2007 Conflicted Antiquities is a rich cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Consulting the relevant Arabic archives, Elliott Colla demonstrates that the emergence of Egyptology—the study of ancient Egypt and its material legacy—was as ...
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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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BLIND SPOTS IN MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY: Ancient Egypt in the Ethnographic Museum
Museum Anthropology, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 96-110, Fall 2022., 2022 abstract In the past few decades, the literature in museum anthropology has advocated efforts to be more transparent about its colonial origins, address the historical injustices of imperial collecting, and rethink display narratives in collaboration with source communities.
Alice Stevenson, Alice Williams
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Riley in Cairo: British Art and Egypt in the 1980s
Art History, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 650-672, June 2022., 2022 In the early 1980s, Bridget Riley produced a series of paintings distinguished by their use of the same group of colours, said to have been inspired by the vividly preserved painted tombs that she encountered during a visit to Egypt in the winter of 1979–80.
Richard Johns
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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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