Egyptian Art (World Art Series) - Hardcover

Aldred, Cyril

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195202236 ISBN 13: 9780195202236

Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, 1980

Synopsis

Traces the history of ancient Egyptian sculpture, painting, and bas-relief and assesses its character, and the artists who created it

About this title

About the Author:

Cyril Aldred was among the first to graduate in the History of Art at the newly founded Courtauld Institute of Art, London, in 1936, and studied Egyptology as an art historian. From 1961 to 1974 he was Keeper of the Department of Art and Archaeology at the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, and he also served as Associate Curator fot e Department of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He died in 1991. His many publications include Egypt to the End of the Old Kingdom (1965), Akhenaten and Nefertiti (1973), Jewels of the Pharaohs (2nd edn, 1978), Tutankhamen, Craftsmanship in Gold in the Reign of the King (1979), The Egyptians  (rev. edn, 1987), and Akhenaten: King of Egypt (1988).

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0195202236
• ISBN 13: 9780195202236
• Binding: Hardcover