1977, ISBN: 0394411706

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[EAN: 9780394411705], [PU: NY. 1976. A.A. Knopf / Metropolitan Museum Of Art], Jacket, black & ornately gilt illustrated (winged Isis on cover) full cloth hardcover 4to ~ 4º (quarto ~ 9"x… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780394411705], [PU: NY. 1976. A.A. Knopf / Metropolitan Museum Of Art], Jacket, black & ornately gilt illustrated (winged Isis on cover) full cloth hardcover 4to ~ 4º (quarto ~ 9"x11"). large "coffee table" book, international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition so stated . first printing (nap). full color illustrated endpapers. 250p. glossy pages throughout. every page illustrated, mostly in full color. archaeology. ancient egypt. art history. With 100 plates in full color, newly photographed in Cairo for the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Lee Boltin. 103 photographs in black and white taken by Harry Burton at the time of the discovery. Text by I. E. S. Edwards. Foreword by Thomas F. Hoving, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Never before in the literature~or the photography~of Egyptology has a book displayed so richly the splendors of ancient Egyptian art. Here are the legendary treasures of Tutankhamun's tomb~in a magnificent volume expanded from the unprecedented Metropolitan Museum~Egyptian Government Exhibition, about which Hilton Kramer wrote in The New York Times: "These treasures are not only of great historical rarity: they are also objects of great aesthetic splendor.As an exhibition of art.it captivates the mind and bedazzles the senses." Now, in this beautiful book, which includes not only the masterpieces on display in the exhibition but those exquisite objects considered too delicate or too large to send to America, the golden burial trove of Tutankhamun is seen as never before. One hundred color plates, showing us unsurpassed examples of every kind of treasure buried in the tomb, are brilliantly reproduced from photographs newly taken by Lee Boltin with the special cooperation of the Cairo Museum under ideal conditions never before granted. The color plates are juxtaposed with historic on~the~scene photographs (reproduced from the original glass plates)~103 of them, taken between 1922 and 1928 by the Metropolitan's observer Harry Burton throughout the six~year excavation of the tomb, which had been undisturbed for more than 3,000 years until Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter entered it on November 26, 1922. Shown together, the black~and~white photographs and the color plates take us step by step through the rooms and through time as we explore the most spectacular archaeological discovery of the twentieth century. They show us the interior of the tomb as the archaeologists first saw it~the cluttered magnificence of each room as a whole as well as close~ups of the objects, both precious and mundane, ranging from touching mementos of the pharaoh's boyhood to the magnificent jewelry, furniture, and sculpture that was chosen to accompany him to the afterlife. I. E. S. Edwards, former Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum, provides extensive commentary on the individual treasures, from the gold mask of the boy king, inlaid with colored glass, lapis lazuli, green feldspar, and obsidian, and the gilded wooden statue of the goddess Selket, to the knee~high figurine of Tutankhamun himself, holding a harpoon in his right hand, and the bleating ibex, with its glass eyes and red~stained ivory tongue, as well as necklaces, crooks, daggers, bracelets."Their beauty is breathtaking," writes Hilton Kramer. "We look, we admire, and we are finally staggered at the thought that so much that is so inspired was intended never again to be seen by human eyes once its purpose had been fulfilled." More than any book previously published, Tutankhamun: His Tomb and Its Treasures testifies to this exalted artistry. The foreword is by Thomas F. Hoving, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The photograph on the jacket shows the back panel of a gold, Books<

1978, ISBN: 0394411706

[EAN: 9780394411705], [PU: The Metropolitain Museum of Art & Alfred A. Knopf, New York], Jacket, Hardcover. 4to. Black cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine and gilt illustration … Mehr…

[EAN: 9780394411705], [PU: The Metropolitain Museum of Art & Alfred A. Knopf, New York], Jacket, Hardcover. 4to. Black cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine and gilt illustration to front board. Pristine interior filled with full color illustrations on every page. Illustrated dust jacket with white title to front panel and yellow title to black spine panel. Small closed tear to rear panel of dust jacket. Index, 256. Egypt. EGY/030411., Books<