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2014
The most enduring association of Tarot is with the mystical land of Egypt. This paper explores the nature of this erroneous connection; investigating its origins during the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French occult revival with authors of esotericism including Antoine Court de Gébelin and Etteilla.
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The most enduring association of Tarot is with the mystical land of Egypt. This paper explores the nature of this erroneous connection; investigating its origins during the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French occult revival with authors of esotericism including Antoine Court de Gébelin and Etteilla.
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Modern Egyptomania and Early Egyptology: The Case of Mariette’s 1867 Egyptian Temple
Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 2018Certainly, as an archaeologist, I would be inclined to blame these useless displays that do not do science any good; but if the Museum thus presented appeals to those for whom it is designed, if th...
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Miguel John Versluys, ed. Beyond Egyptomania. Objects, Styles and Agency
2021Review of: Miguel John Versluys (ed.), Beyond Egyptomania. Objects, Styles and Agency. Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus 21. De Gruyter, Berlin 2020, 361 pages, illustrations, ISBN: 9783110564259 , 3110564254 , 978-3-11-056584 ...
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Aida, Egyptomania, and the After-life of Grand Opera
2020Abstract This chapter explores three related themes present in Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida: the nexus between the imaginative display of the flute and the wider nineteenth-century fascination with ancient Egypt; Verdi’s turn to the affective poetics of phantasmagoria—its focus on loss, mourning and consolation—as he mobilized grand opera for ...
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Egyptomania and Exoticism in Britain and France: Western Hegemony and Cultural Appropriation
2015In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone, Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws The only shadow that the Desert knows:— "I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone, "The King of Kings; this mighty City shows "The wonders of my hand."— The City's gone,— Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose The site of this ...
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'EGYPTOMANIA' AND AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE
2012Richard A. Fazzini, Mary E. McKercher
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The Cult of Isis and Ancient Egyptomania in Campania
2012The cult of Isis and ancient 'Egyptomania' in Campania need to be observed from an archaeological perspective,focusing on chronologies, social levels of patrons and contexts of origins of the images. Images probably related to a domestic cult should be distinguished from 'Nilotic' and 'Pharaonic' images, chronologically distinct and possessing ...
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Egyptomania: The Egyptian Revival; A Recurring Theme in the History of Taste.
The American Historical Review, 1996Whitney Davis, James Stevens Curl
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