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Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Flatbush, and Park Slope neighborhoods of Brooklyn, the museum's Beaux-Arts building was designed by McKim, Mead & White.The Brooklyn Museum was founded in 1823 as the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library and merged with the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in 1843. The museum was conceived as an institution focused on a broad public. The Brooklyn Museum's current building dates to 1897 and has been expanded several times since then. The museum initially struggled to maintain its building and collection, but it was revitalized in the late 20th century following major renovations.
Significant areas of the collection include antiquities, specifically their collection of Egyptian antiquities spanning over 3,000 years. European, African, Oceanic, and Japanese art make for notable antiquities collections as well. American art is heavily represented, starting at the Colonial period. Artists represented in the collection include Mark Rothko, Edward Hopper, Norman Rockwell, Judy Chicago, Winslow Homer, Edgar Degas, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Max Weber. Provided by Wikipedia
Soulful creatures : animal mummies in ancient Egypt /
: Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt," organized by the Brooklyn Museum from its collections. : 151 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-147) and index of illustrations. : 9781907804274
An ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead : the papyrus of Sobekmose /
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'The Book of the Dead of Sobekmose', in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, New York, is one of the most important surviving examples of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead genre. Such papyrus scrolls were composed of traditional funerary texts, including magic spells, that were thought to assist a dead person on their journey into the afterlife. This publication is the first to offer a continuous English translation of a single, extensive, major text that can speak to us from beginning to end in the order in which it was composed. The papyrus itself is one of the longest of its kind to come down to us from the New Kingdom, a time when Egypt's international power and prosperity were at their peak. This new translation not only represents a great step forward in the study of these texts, but also grants modern readers a direct encounter with what can seem a remote and alien civilization. With language that is, in many places, unquestionably evocative and very beautiful, it offers a look into the mindset of the ancient Egyptians, highlighting their beliefs and anxieties about this world as well as the next. The papyrus itself is reproduced in its entirety and the translation is prefaced by a fully illustrated introductory essay which, along with a brief chronology of ancient Egypt and a glossary guiding the reader through the religious and mythological terminology that they will encounter, grounds it in its historical context.
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Glossary of terms and names, and chronology. :
216 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm. :
Bibliography : pages 205-207. :
9780500051887
Africa in antiquity : the arts of ancient Nubia and the Sudan.
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Catalog of the exhibition held at the Brooklyn Museum, September 30-December 31, 1978 and other places.
Digital copy is on the Internet Archive website. :
2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm. :
Includes bibliographies and index. :
0872730638 (v. 1)
0872730646 (v. 2)