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Egyptomania at the RI

2021
Ever since Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, there has been enormous interest in the civilization of the ancient Egyptians, that has lasted more than six millennia. There were many early Discourses in the RI on the nature and unwrapping of Egyptian mummies.
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Egyptomania: Egypt in Western Art, 1730-1930

The Art Bulletin, 1996
This volume traces the waves of Egyptian influence which swept Europe and North America from the first modern use of Egyptian themes in a painting by Poussin in 1647 to Baccarat perfume bottles shaped like Ramses, inspired by the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922.
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Aegyptiaca and Various Forms of Egyptomania in Croatia

2017
This paper discusses various elements of Aegyptiaca and Egyptomania at the historical territory of the modern Croatia, dating from the 1st Millennium BCuntil the modern day, namely: 1. Aegyptiaca during the Roman Empire, present in the Amphitheatre in Pula and the Diocletian Palace in Split.2.
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Egyptomania and religion in James Burnett, Lord Monboddo’s ‘History of Man’

History of European Ideas, 2020
The Scottish judge and ‘eccentric’ philosopher James Burnett, Lord Monboddo’s (1714–1799) significance within Enlightenment thought is usually seen as stemming from his Origin and Progress of Langu...
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Conflicted Antiquities

open access: yes, 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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‘Young Memnon’ and Romantic Egyptomania

2002
Abstract Between December 1817 and January 1818 two Egyptian statues appeared before the British public. One was a 7-ton antique bust carved out of red and black granite brought from Thebes; the other, miniaturized within the fourteen lines of Shelley’s sonnet ‘Ozymandias’ was first published in The Examiner, no.
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