The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt

by: Stevenson Smith, W.

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 The civilisation of Ancient Egypt flourished along the fertile banks of the River Nile. It was a civilisation that extended in virtually unbroken continuity from the fourth millennium B.C. to the conquest of Alexander the Great. During this long era of constancy the architectural and artistic styles characteristic of this civilisation changed and developed from period to period and dynasty to dynasty, as this book so vividly shows. Monuments with their wall-reliefs and paintings and treasures and decoration as well as many other works of art are beautifully reproduced in over 400 illustrations, many in colour, which alongside this classic text, now revised and with a new updated bibliography, make this volume the definitive survey of this subject, appealing both to students and the general reader

Contents:
Chronological table
Part 1. The prehistoric and early dynastic periods. Predynastic Egypt (4000-3200 B.C.) ; Dynasties I-II (3200-2780 B.C.)
Part 2. The old kingdom. Dynasty III (2780-2680 B.C.) ; Dynasty IV (2680-2565 B.C.) ; Dynasty V (2565-2420 B.C.) ; Dynasty VI (2420-2258 B.C.)
Part 3. The growth of the middle kingdom and its collapse. The first intermediate period : dynasties VII-X (2258-2052 B.C.) ; Dynasty XI (2134-1991 B.C.) ; Dynasty XII (1991-1786 B.C.) ; The minor arts and foreign relations of the middle kingdom ; The second intermediate period : Dynasties XIII-XVII (1786-1570 B.C.)
Part 4. The new kingdom. The early eighteenth dynasty : Ahmose-Tuthmosis III (1570-1450 B.C.) ; The height of the eighteenth dynasty : Amenhotep II-Amenhotep III (1450-1372 B.C.) ; The palace of Amenhotep III and new kingdom domestic architecture ; The change to Amarna ; The Amarna period (1372-1350 B.C.) ; The post-Amarna period (1350-1314 B.C.) ; The Ramesside period : dynasties XIX-XX (1314-1085 B.C.)
Part 5. The later periods. The period of decline : dynasties XXI-XXII (1085-730 B.C.) ; The Kushite and Saite revival and the end of dynastic Egypt (730-332 B.C.)

Series:
Pelican history of art

501 pages : illustrations, plans ; 21 cm.

The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt

by: Stevenson Smith, W.

• ISBN-13: 9780140561142 / 978-0-14-056114-2
• ISBN-03: 0140561145 / 0-14-056114-5
• Penguin Books, , 1984

Price: 45,00 EURO

1 copy in stock