Visions d'Égypte : Émile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) /
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Catalogue de l'exposition présentée à la BnF, Richelieu du 1e mars au 5 juin 2011. Ingénieur de formation, Émile Prisse d'Avennes devient tour à tour égyptologue, archéologue, ethnologue : il s'intéresse autant aux ruines pharaoniques qu'aux monuments islamiques, et vit à l'orientale au milieu de populations dont il observe les coutumes. Des deux séjours qu'il accomplit en Égypte, de 1827 à 1844, puis de 1858 à 1860, il rapporte objets, aquarelles, dessins, calques, estampages et photographies qui constituent un fonds iconographique sans égal.
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159 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9782717724844
Markus Pasha Simaika : founder of the Coptic Museum ; his life and times /
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"This book is dedicated to the memory of my father, Youssef Marcus Simaika, to whom I owe so much". :
192 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 25 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (page 192). :
9771799738 (paperback)
9789771799733 (paperback)
Josef Strzygowski und die Berliner Museen /
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Catalog of the exhibition held at Bode-Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, October 19, 2012- January 20, 2013. :
103 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-101). :
9783895009273 (pbk.)
389500927X (pbk.)
Muṣṭafá Alī's Epic deeds of artists : a critical edition of the earliest Ottoman text about the calligraphers and painters of the Islamic world /
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The earliest known Ottoman literary source about the lives and works of calligraphers, painters, limners, and book-binders of the Ottoman and Persianate worlds, Mustafa ʿÂli's (1541-1600) Epic Deeds of Artists (1587), was hitherto considered to be primarily a biographic dictionary. Based on a comprehensive reading of the descriptive and analytic tools of ʿÂli's biographical writings as well as his passionately penned personal reflections on sixteenth-century attitudes toward art and artists, this critical edition by Esra Akın-Kıvanç brings to the fore the significance of Epic Deeds not only as a guide to the connoisseurs and aficionados of the time, but also as a fascinating commentary by a prominent intellectual on the spiritual meaning and material value of art.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-490) and index. :
9789047441076 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.