Emile Prisse d'Avennes. An artist-antiquarian in Egypt in the 19th century. BiEtud 156.
IFAO| N° d'inventaire | 17251 |
| Format | 20.5 x 28 |
| Détails | 309 p., color illustrations, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Cairo, 2013 |
| Etat | Nine |
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The work of Émile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879), a scholarly figure who accompanied the birth of Egyptology, constitutes a very broad scientific undertaking, which embraces the remains of ancient Egypt and the monuments of Islamic Egypt as well as the material culture of contemporary Egypt. This work seeks to define the contours of a prolific, but little-known, drawn and printed work, based on studies based on papers preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France and complementary sources identified in other French, but also Dutch, Italian and British collections. The collected essays take stock of the many curiosities of the man who liked to define himself as "artist and antiquarian", on his working methods, his readings and on the network of interlocutors and collaborators who enriched his documentation, in Egypt as in France. Unpublished works and excerpts from correspondence, as well as a general bibliography of the writings of Émile Prisse d'Avennes, are presented for the first time. The collection, through a scientific figure who is undoubtedly less atypical than he appears, renews our understanding of the relationships between the art of drawing, ethnographic sensibility, and antiquarian science in the 19th century.
The work of Émile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879), a scholarly figure who accompanied the birth of Egyptology, constitutes a very broad scientific undertaking, which embraces the remains of ancient Egypt and the monuments of Islamic Egypt as well as the material culture of contemporary Egypt. This work seeks to define the contours of a prolific, but little-known, drawn and printed work, based on studies based on papers preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France and complementary sources identified in other French, but also Dutch, Italian and British collections. The collected essays take stock of the many curiosities of the man who liked to define himself as "artist and antiquarian", on his working methods, his readings and on the network of interlocutors and collaborators who enriched his documentation, in Egypt as in France. Unpublished works and excerpts from correspondence, as well as a general bibliography of the writings of Émile Prisse d'Avennes, are presented for the first time. The collection, through a scientific figure who is undoubtedly less atypical than he appears, renews our understanding of the relationships between the art of drawing, ethnographic sensibility, and antiquarian science in the 19th century.