Egypt Lost and Found:Explorers and Travellers on the Nile

Explorers and Travellers on the Nile

Alberto Siliotti (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

1999
Thames & Hudson Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-500-01882-8 (ISBN)

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This work chronicles the rediscovery of Egypt and its priceless art treasures by European travellers over the last 500 years. The author interweaves text and colour illustrations, many of which are the detailed drawings and paintings made by travellers documenting their journeys.

This work chronicles the story of the rediscovery of Egypt and its priceless art treasures by European travellers over the last five hundred years. The book interweaves text with colour illustrations, many the detailed drawings and paintings made by travellers documenting their journey. David Roberts, Hector Horeau and many other lesser-known artists made drawings and illustrations that greatly contribute to our knowledge of this recovered world of temples, sphinxes. obelisks, columns, pylons, tombs and low-reliefs. Illuminating some of the greatest adventures and discoveries of all time, this book is intended for anyone with an interest in the Egyptians and their legacy.

Travellers in antiquity; in the wake of the Crusades, pilgrims and adventurers; the first 18th century travellers; Napoleon and the Egyptian Expedition; description of l'Egypte and Dominique Vivant Denon; the "War of the Consuls"; GB. Belzoni - a giant on the Nile; General Von Minutoli's expedition; Gerolamo Segato and the "secret" of mummification; Jean Francois Champollion, Ippolito Rosellini and the Franco-Tuscan expedition; Nestor l'Horte - Champollion's draftsman; John Gardiner Wilkinson - the father of British Egyptology; Richard Vyse and John Perring; Karl Lepsius's Prussian expedition; Emile Prisse d'Avennes; painters and artists on the Nile.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.1.1999
Zusatzinfo	1050 colour illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Reisen ► Bildbände ► Afrika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	0-500-01882-0 / 0500018820
ISBN-13	978-0-500-01882-8 / 9780500018828
Zustand	Neuware