Year of manufacture: 2001
Author: Prisse d'Avennes
Genre: art criticism
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 977-424-584-9
Format: PDF
English language
Number of Pages: 176
This remarkable book on Egyptian art, written by one of his early explorers - one of the most beautiful works on ancient Egyptian art. The monumental work of Prisse d'Avennes, first published in Paris between 1868 and 1878, includes the only surviving record of many lost artifacts.
"None of Priss's contemporaries had the skill or stamina to bring his efforts to such a brilliant end, he was ahead of his time in understanding the vulnerability of monuments and the need to protect them and record them.They made the first reliable drawings of Egyptian architecture, ornaments , the first plans and the section of buildings right after the excavation work was done.He returned to Paris [in 1860] with a rich harvest of 300 drawings, 400 meters of compression and 150 photographs. " - Maarten J. Raven, Guardian of the Egyptian Department, the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden. "
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