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When Europeans rediscovered Egypt beginning in the late 1700s, they did so with most dramatic effectiveness when they did so on the stage of ancient Egyptian ruins. Tomb robbers, treasure hunters, scientists, archaeologists over the years the names changed to reflect both the changing tasks undertaken by the outside arrivers to the Nile Valley, and the amount of spin control put on those... [more]
Some of the most visible examples of nineteenth-century American Egyptomania were in the field of architecture. Nineteenth-century America was home to many buildings built specifically to emulate the monumental buildings of ancient Egypt. Known today as the Egyptian Revival, this style of architecture was closely related to other nineteenth-century styles intentionally based on ancient styles;... [more]
The visual arts were one of the most active sites for nineteenth-century American Egyptomania. Because so many of the discoveries in nineteenth-century Egyptology were visual in nature ancient ruins, massive structures, stone carvings, even hieroglyphics and because these discoveries took place in striking natural areas deserts, oases, river valleys painters and other illustrators found... [more]
The visual arts were one of the most active sites for nineteenth-century American Egyptomania. Because so many of the discoveries in nineteenth-century Egyptology were visual in nature ancient ruins, massive structures, stone carvings, even hieroglyphics and because these discoveries took place in striking natural areas deserts, oases, river valleys painters and other illustrators found... [more]
The visual arts were one of the most active sites for nineteenth-century American Egyptomania. Because so many of the discoveries in nineteenth-century Egyptology were visual in nature ancient ruins, massive structures, stone carvings, even hieroglyphics and because these discoveries took place in striking natural areas deserts, oases, river valleys painters and other illustrators found... [more]
The visual arts were one of the most active sites for nineteenth-century American Egyptomania. Because so many of the discoveries in nineteenth-century Egyptology were visual in nature ancient ruins, massive structures, stone carvings, even hieroglyphics and because these discoveries took place in striking natural areas deserts, oases, river valleys painters and other illustrators found... [more]
The visual arts were one of the most active sites for nineteenth-century American Egyptomania. Because so many of the discoveries in nineteenth-century Egyptology were visual in nature ancient ruins, massive structures, stone carvings, even hieroglyphics and because these discoveries took place in striking natural areas deserts, oases, river valleys painters and other illustrators found... [more]
The visual arts were one of the most active sites for nineteenth-century American Egyptomania. Because so many of the discoveries in nineteenth-century Egyptology were visual in nature ancient ruins, massive structures, stone carvings, even hieroglyphics and because these discoveries took place in striking natural areas deserts, oases, river valleys painters and other illustrators found... [more]
The visual arts were one of the most active sites for nineteenth-century American Egyptomania. Because so many of the discoveries in nineteenth-century Egyptology were visual in nature ancient ruins, massive structures, stone carvings, even hieroglyphics and because these discoveries took place in striking natural areas deserts, oases, river valleys painters and other illustrators found... [more]
The story of American Egyptomania is often one of rather freewheeling imagery. Pyramids, sphinxes, pharaohs, slaves, science, magic, secrets, revelations all could be combined in almost infinite number of unpredictable ways, making for an almost endless number of variations. This was, in fact, one of Egyptomanias biggest draws: for every person interested in narrowing down the specific... [more]
Sex sells, and in Egyptomania, the question of which came first the sex or the mania was impossible to answer. With Egyptomania came a whole host of already-packaged exotic erotic sexual images: slave women, harem girls, Oriental temptresses, even Cleopatra herself. In fact, so attached to one another were advertisements for Egyptian attractions and images of sex and exotic sexuality... [more]
As popular as ancient Egypt was in nineteenth-century cultural circles considered respectable or highbrow such as archaeology, history, linguistics, or even architecture it was at least as popular in social areas decidedly more democratic. Popular culture of all sorts was quick to seize on images and discourses of ancient Egypt and use them as forms of knowledge and entertainment. In... [more]
The visual arts were one of the most active sites for nineteenth-century American Egyptomania. Because so many of the discoveries in nineteenth-century Egyptology were visual in nature ancient ruins, massive structures, stone carvings, even hieroglyphics and because these discoveries took place in striking natural areas deserts, oases, river valleys painters and other illustrators found... [more]
The visual arts were one of the most active sites for nineteenth-century American Egyptomania. Because so many of the discoveries in nineteenth-century Egyptology were visual in nature ancient ruins, massive structures, stone carvings, even hieroglyphics and because these discoveries took place in striking natural areas deserts, oases, river valleys painters and other illustrators found... [more]
The visual arts were one of the most active sites for nineteenth-century American Egyptomania. Because so many of the discoveries in nineteenth-century Egyptology were visual in nature ancient ruins, massive structures, stone carvings, even hieroglyphics and because these discoveries took place in striking natural areas deserts, oases, river valleys painters and other illustrators found... [more]
The 1850s saw an explosion of American interest in the figure of Cleopatra. Poems, paintings, sculptures, and novels all were written with the Egyptian queen at their center, but the main form accounts of Cleopatra took during this decade was biography. Short or book-length, praising or damning, sanitized or scandalous, biographical studies of Cleopatra were hugely popular and sold regularly,... [more]
The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is probably the most famous and iconic example of Egyptian Revival architecture in American history. Designed by South Carolina architect Robert Mills in 1836 but not completed until 1884, the Monument is modeled after a classic ancient Egyptian obelisk, but is stripped of any external markings and expanded in size, standing a bit over 555 feet in the... [more]
The origins of American archaeology are far from a stately and orderly affair. The discovery of the remains of ancient civilizations in Egypt in the 1800s sparked enormous interest in similar remains all over the world, this was especially true in the case of ruins, those most visible of past cultures lost to the sands of time. Such ancient structures were often seen to challenge received... [more]
The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is probably the most famous and iconic example of Egyptian Revival architecture in American history. Designed by South Carolina architect Robert Mills in 1836 but not completed until 1884, the Monument is modeled after a classic ancient Egyptian obelisk, but is stripped of any external markings and expanded in size, standing a bit over 555 feet in the... [more]
The visual arts were one of the most active sites for nineteenth-century American Egyptomania. Because so many of the discoveries in nineteenth-century Egyptology were visual in nature ancient ruins, massive structures, stone carvings, even hieroglyphics and because these discoveries took place in striking natural areas deserts, oases, river valleys painters and other illustrators found... [more] | ||||
