Ancient Egyptian Art Books
By STAN PARCHIN
September 1, 2009
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| Egyptian, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18 (ca. 1336-1327 B.C.). Coffinette for the Viscera of Tutankhamun. Gold, carnelian, obsidian, rock crystal and glass. L: 39.5 cm (15.6 in.); W: 11 cm (4.3 in.); H: 10 cm (3.9 in.). Egyptian Museum, Cairo. © Andreas F. Voegelin, Antikenmuseum, Basel and Sammlung Ludwig. |
In his Histories, the Greek author Herodotus (ca. 484-425 B.C.) called Egypt the "gift of the Nile," an apt description for an arid region's splendid civilization, its cultural efflorescence linked intrinsically to the river's annual inundation. Thousands of years later, the country's sands still yield fascinating information about its ancient history and relation to other civilizations. Its artifacts' interpretations by archaeologists, art historians, linguists and scientists are detailed in scholarly texts and exhibition catalogues, many published by art museums worldwide.
General
Aldred, Cyril. Egyptian Art. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1980.
Shaw, Ian (ed.), et al. The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Smith, W. Stevenson. The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
Ziegler, Christiane (ed.), et al. The Pharaohs (exh. cat.). New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2002.
Old Kingdom
Arnold, Dorothea, et al. Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999.
_____. When the Pyramids Were Built: Egyptian Art of the Old Kingdom. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999.
Edwards, I.E.S. The Pyramids of Egypt (3rd ed.). New York: Viking Press, 1987.
Stewart, Desmond, et al. The Pyramids and Sphinx. New York: Newsweek, 1971.
Middle and New Kingdoms
Freed, Rita E., et al. The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 B.C. (exh. cat.). Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2009.
Roehrig, Catharine H. Life Along the Nile: Three Egyptians of Ancient Thebes. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002.
Winlock, Herbert E. "Digger's Luck." MMA Bulletin, Summer 1975, 56-71.
New Kingdom
Aruz, Joan, Kim Benzel and Jean M. Evans (eds.), et al. Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C. (exh. cat.). New York and New Haven: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2008, 251-269, 358-362, 416-418.
Brovarski, Edward, Susan K. Doll, Rita E. Freed, et al. Egypt's Golden Age: The Art of Living in the New Kingdom 1558-1085 B.C. (exh. cat.). Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1982.
Kozloff, Arielle P., Betsy M. Bryan, et al. Egypt's Dazzling Sun (exh. cat.). Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1992.
Roehrig, Catherine H. with René Dreyfus and Cathleen A. Keller (eds.), et al. Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh (exh. cat.). New York and New Haven: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2005.
Siliotti, Alberto. Guide to the Valley of the Kings. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997.
Amarna Period and Pharaoh Tutankhamun
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Women in Ancient Egyptian Art
Capel, Anne K. and Glenn E. Markoe (eds.), et al. Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven: Women in Ancient Egypt (exh. cat.). Cincinnati and New York: Cincinnati Art Museum and Hudson Hills Press, 1996.
Medicine and Mummification
Allen, James P. with David T. Mininberg. M.D. The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt (exh. cat.). New York and New Haven: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2005.
D'Auria, Sue, Peter Lacovara and Catharine H. Roehrig. Mummies and Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt (exh. cat.). Boston and Dallas: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Dallas Museum of Art, 1988.
Taylor, John H. and Nigel C. Strudwick. Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt... Treasures from the British Museum (exh. cat.). Santa Ana: Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, 2005.
Walker, Susan (ed.), et al. Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.
Winlock, Herbert E. "The Mummy of Wah Unwrapped." MMA Bulletin, Summer 1975, 72-76.
Collections
Arnold, Dorothea. "An Egyptian Bestiary." MMA Bulletin, Spring 1995.
Berman, Lawrence M., et al. Catalogue of Egyptian Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.
Bierbrier, Morris L. Queens & Commoners of Egypt's New Kingdom (exh. cat.). Charleston: Charleston Museum, 1998.
Bleiberg, Edward with Kathlyn M. Cooney. To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum (exh. cat.). Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 2008.
Hibbard, Howard. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Harrison House, 1985, 29-49.
Hornung, Erik and Betsy M. Bryan (eds.), et al. The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt (exh. cat.). Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2002.
Lilyquist, Christine, et al. "Egyptian Art." MMA Bulletin, Winter 1983-84.
Peck, William H. Splendors of Ancient Egypt (exh. cat.). Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1997.
Raggio, Olga, et al. The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983, 175-182.
Roehrig, Catharine H. "Ancient Art: Gifts from the Norbert Schimmel Collection." MMA Bulletin, Spring 1992, 22-36.
Russmann, Edna R. Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum (exh. cat.). New York: American Federation of Arts, 2001.
Spurr, Stephen, Nicholas Reeves and Stephen Quirke. Egyptian Art at Eton College: Selections from the Myers Museum (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.
Trope, Betsy Teasley, Stephen Quirke and Peter Lacovara, et al. Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London (exh. cat.). Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2005.
Terrace, Edward L.B. and Henry G. Fischer. Treasures of Egyptian Art from the Cairo Museum (exh. cat.). Boston and New York: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970.
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