Ancient Egyptian art and design includes painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, furniture, textiles and other material objects produced by the civilization living in the Nile Valley from roughly ...
Art history has all but forgotten the love that sculptor Auguste Rodin had for the art of Egypt. A new exhbition in New York is fixing that.
Here's how artists and designers have borrowed from the ancient civilization's rich visual vocabulary. A recreation of King Tutankhamun's death mask, on view at "Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his ...
Have you ever wondered what secrets, magic spells and stories are painted in ancient Egyptian tombs? Are you curious about why the pharaohs always “Walk Like an Egyptian”? The archaeological remains ...
For many artists, the most challenging subject to master is the human face. The fault lies not in any intrinsic element of our features themselves – though our foreheads, eyes, cheeks, noses, mouths, ...
Their faces draw you in — big, expressive eyes staring out as if they’ve been frozen in the act of remembering something important. Painted on wooden panels and placed over the faces of mummified ...
Some of the most important artifacts of the rich Egyptian history are held in Western museums. While hopes of repatriation are small, efforts are being undertaken and small successes achieved. Artist ...
Here’s what you will learn when you read this story: Famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass discovered a statue that he said rewrites what we know about Egyptian art history. The familial statue mixed ...