Egyptian art
Eternal monuments, hieroglyphs, and the art of the NileBy Jean Capart, Elie Faure, Victoria Charles
Length1h 24m
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Egyptian art is perhaps the most impersonal that exists. The artist effaces himself. But he has such an innate sense of life, a sense so directly moved and so limpid that everything of life which he describes seems defined by that sense, to issue from the natural gesture, from the exact attitude, in which one no longer sees stiffness. His impersonality resembles that of the trees bowing in the wind with a single movement and without resistance, or that of the water which wrinkles into equal circles all moving in the same direction. From afar, Egyptian art seems changeless and forever like itself. From nearby, it offers, like that of all the other peoples, the spectacle of great evolutions, of progress toward freedom of expression, of researches in imposed hieratism. Egypt is so far from us that it all seems on the same plane. One forgets that there are fifteen or twenty centuries, the age of Christianity — between the "Seated Scribe" and the great classic period, twenty-five or thirty centuries, fifty, perhaps — twice the time that separates us from Pericles and Phidias — between the pyramids and the Saite school, the last living manifestation of the Egyptian ideal. Egypt died of her need of eternity.
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Length1 hr 24 mins
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Publish dateDec 9, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2INTRODUCTION THE COUNTRY: ITS CHARACTERISTIC ASPECTS
3A GLANCE AT HISTORY
4THE MONUMENTS
5TUTANKHAMUN, PHARAOH OF THE EIGHTEENTH DYNASTY
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6AKHENATEN, PHARAOH OF THE EIGHTEENTH DYNASTY
7NEFERTITI, QUEEN OF THE EIGHTEENTH DYNASTY
8RAMESSES II, PHARAOH OF THE NINETEENTH DYNASTY
9THE TWENTIETH DYNASTY
10THE EGYPT THAT DOES NOT DIE
11EPILOGUE
12The desperate housewives cookbook
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