Egyptian Collection. Granet Museum.
Cheops| N° d'inventaire | 18800 |
| Format | 21 x 29.7 |
| Détails | 264 p., paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782916142180 |
It is on the occasion of the exhibition Pharaoh, Osiris and the Mummy (from September 19, 2020 to February 14, 2021), that the catalog of the Egyptian collection of the Granet Museum in Aix-en-Provence is the subject of a new publication, twenty-five years after its first edition. This collection was formed mainly in the 19th century thanks to the numerous donations and bequests of antiquities collected by Aix art lovers, thus confirming the cultural and artistic vocation of the city, resulting from a long tradition of princes, nobles, wealthy merchants, bourgeois and patrons, who from the beginning of the 15th century would attract many artists to the capital of Provence. In a modernized form, this work includes the notices of all the objects that constitute the collection with all the necessary updates, both for the bibliography and for the interpretation of important works that can be better understood today. Christophe Barbotin has been a curator in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities at the Louvre Museum since 1986. The author of numerous books and articles, he specializes in Egyptian philology and the history of New Kingdom sculpture. He is notably responsible for the first edition of this catalog in 1995.
It is on the occasion of the exhibition Pharaoh, Osiris and the Mummy (from September 19, 2020 to February 14, 2021), that the catalog of the Egyptian collection of the Granet Museum in Aix-en-Provence is the subject of a new publication, twenty-five years after its first edition. This collection was formed mainly in the 19th century thanks to the numerous donations and bequests of antiquities collected by Aix art lovers, thus confirming the cultural and artistic vocation of the city, resulting from a long tradition of princes, nobles, wealthy merchants, bourgeois and patrons, who from the beginning of the 15th century would attract many artists to the capital of Provence. In a modernized form, this work includes the notices of all the objects that constitute the collection with all the necessary updates, both for the bibliography and for the interpretation of important works that can be better understood today. Christophe Barbotin has been a curator in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities at the Louvre Museum since 1986. The author of numerous books and articles, he specializes in Egyptian philology and the history of New Kingdom sculpture. He is notably responsible for the first edition of this catalog in 1995.