The Painted Tomb-chapel of Nebamun: Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art in the British Museum (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for The Painted Tomb-chapel of Nebamun The paintings from Nebamuns tomb chapel are among the greatest and most famous of the British Museums treasures. This book discusses each painting, with reconstructions and translations of the hieroglyphic texts, a discussion of the other known fragments and a reconstruction of the whole tomb chapel.
Full description- Publisher: BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS
- Published: 01 May 2008
- Format: Paperback 152 pages
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- Categories: Art History: Ancient & Classical BCE to c 500 CE | Paintings | Ancient History: To C 500 CE
- ISBN 13: 9780714119793 ISBN 10: 0714119792
- Sales rank: 371,452
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Full description for The Painted Tomb-chapel of Nebamun
The paintings from Nebamuns tomb chapel are among the greatest and most famous of the British Museums treasures. Yet much about them remains mysterious, and this book is concerned with the detective work undertaken to help us to understand and see them properly before they are displayed in a new permanent gallery in 2008. For this the paintings are being conserved and remounted in the Museums specialist laboratories, a process that is revealing radical new information about painting techniques in ancient Egypt.This, together with archival work, is helping us to solve the problem of the tomb-chapels location at Thebes, last seen in the 1820s when the paintings were removed. Richard Parkinson discusses each painting fully, with reconstructions and translations of the hieroglyphic texts, a discussion of the other known fragments (now in Berlin and Avignon) and a reconstruction of the whole tomb chapel. Every fragment is fully illustrated in color, doing full justice to an artist who has been described as antiquitys equivalent of Michelangelo.
