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Egypt and Austria IX
FS 2016 ; 1 Beitrag in deutscher Sprache
The Geographical Journal
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Geographical Review
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The Egyptian Renaissance
Fascination with ancient Egypt is a recurring theme in Western culture, and here Brian Curran uncovers its deep roots in the Italian Renaissance, which embraced not only classical art and literature but also a variety of other cultures that modern readers don't tend to associate with early modern Italy. Patrons, artists, and spectators of the period were particularly drawn, Curran shows, to Egyptian antiquity and its artifacts, many of which found their way to Italy in Roman times and exerted an influence every bit as powerful as that of their more familiar Greek and Roman counterparts. Curran vividly recreates this first wave of European Egyptomania with insightful interpretations of the pe...
