Mirage : Napoleon's scientists and the unveiling of Egypt /
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Two centuries ago, only the most reckless Europeans dared traverse the Middle East. Its history and peoples were the subject of myth and speculation--and no region aroused greater interest than Egypt. It was not until 1798, when an unlikely band of scientific explorers traveled from Paris to the Nile Valley, that Westerners received their first real glimpse of what lay beyond the Mediterranean. Under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte, a small corps of Paris's brightest left the safety of their laboratories, studios, and classrooms to embark into the unknown--some never to see French shores again. Over 150 astronomers, mathematicians, naturalists, physicists, doctors, chemists, engineers, botanists, artists--even a poet and a musicologist--accompanied Napoleon's troops into Egypt. They approached the land not as colonizers, but as experts in their fields of scholarship, meticulously categorizing and collecting their finds, and secured their place in history as the world's earliest-known archaeologists.--From publisher description.
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xv, 286 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-269) and index. :
9780060597689
Bonaparte et l'Égypte : feu et lumières : Exhibition held at the Institut du monde arabe, Paris, October 14, 2008-March 19, 2009 ; and at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Arras, May16-Oct...
: Exhibition held at the Institut du monde arabe, Paris, October 14, 2008-March 19, 2009 ; and at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Arras, May16-October 19, 2009. : 420 pages : Illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-417) and index. : 9782754103022
Topkapi à Versailles : trésors de la cour ottomane.
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En haut de la page de titre : Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, 4 mai-15 Août 1999.
Exposition org. à l'occasion du 700e anniversaire de l'Etat ottoman (cf. p. 19). :
349 pages : color, illustrations ; 30 cm. :
Bibliogr. p. 341-349. :
2711839060
Mit Napoleon in Ägypten : die Zeichnungen des Jean-Baptiste Lepère /
: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum--Fondation Corboud, Cologne, Oct. 2, 2009-Jan. 10, 2010. : 256 p., 1 folded leaf of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), plans ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-256). : 9783805341196
Egipto y el Egeo a comienzos de la XVIII dinastía : una visión de sus relaciones, antecedentes e influencia iconográfica /
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"This study is focused on the relations between Egypt and the Aegean during the early XVIIIth Dynasty, a period of close contact between these two regions. The discovery of Minoan wall paintings decorating a palace complex at Tell el Dab'a (Avaris) was the starting point for this research which reviews the evidence concerning the relations between Egyptians and Minoans especially during the beginning of the New Kingdom, but sometimes also looking at the evidence from previous periods. This contact brought together a mutual influence on artistic and cultural matters, which has its best evidence on the Minoan wall paintings decorating a Thutmoside palace complex in Egypt."--Publisher's web site.
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ix, 237 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781407312132