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Guide To The Gayer Anderson Museum Cairo
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Author : nibolas warner
language : en
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2003
Guide To The Gayer Anderson Museum Cairo written by nibolas warner and has been published by American University in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Art categories.
The Gayer-Anderson Museum is housed in the Bayt al-Kritliya, a sixteenth-century merchant’s house that stands adjacent to the ninth-century mosque of Ibn Tulun in one of the oldest quarters of Cairo. In the 1930s the house served as the home of R.G. Gayer-Anderson Pasha, an English doctor and art collector, who furnished it with his collections and left it to the Egyptian government in 1945. The house and the collection together then became the Gayer-Anderson Museum, which remains open to visitors to this day. This updated guide to the museum is illustrated with black-and-white photographs and includes complete floor plans.
Legends Of The House Of The Cretan Woman
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Author : R. G. John Gayer-Anderson
language : en
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2001
Legends Of The House Of The Cretan Woman written by R. G. John Gayer-Anderson and has been published by American Univ in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Buildings categories.
The House of the Cretan Woman, Bait al-Kretliya, is a sixteenth-century merchant's house that stands adjacent to the ninth-century mosque of Ibn Tulun, in one of the oldest quarters of Cairo. Both the house and the mosque are the subjects of the popular myths gathered in this magical book. In the 1930s the house served as the home of Gayer-Anderson Pasha, an English doctor and art collector, who furnished it with his collections and left it to the Egyptian government in 1945, and it was Gayer-Anderson who collected and translated the stories that are the subject of this book from Sheikh Sulaiman, the last head of the Kretli family and guardian of the saint's tomb that flanks the house. He also commissioned a local artisan to create a series of illustrations on copper plates, one to depict each of the fourteen legends, and published the stories with the drawings, along with his own introductory description of the house, in a small edition in England in 1951 that is now long out of print. For this new edition of this classic book, the author's grandson, Theo Gayer-Anderson, an illustrator and a specialist in restoration and conservation, has enhanced and added color to the original monochrome drawings to reanimate the world of benevolent serpents, magical wells, sultans and serving girls, djinns and saints that surrounds the house and the mosque. This unique collection is a significant piece of local history that offers a fascinating sidelight on two of Cairo's best known monuments.
The Gayer Anderson Cat
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Author : Neal Spencer
language : en
Publisher: Object in Focus
Release Date : 2007
The Gayer Anderson Cat written by Neal Spencer and has been published by Object in Focus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Social Science categories.
The Gayer-Anderson Cat has been one of the most admired objects at the British Museum since its arrival in 1947. This book presents a detailed description of the cat and a discussion of its possible meaning and role in ancient times. Surprising new finds from scientific analyses are presented for the first time, shedding light on the cats somewhat traumatic modern history, from its acquisition by the British Army major and avid antiquities collector John Gayer-Anderson to its donation to the British Museum. The fascinating narrative is complemented by outstanding new photography.
Gayer Anderson
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Author : Louise Foxcroft
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Gayer Anderson written by Louise Foxcroft and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Egyptologists categories.
Based on the personal journals of Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson (1881-1945), Egyptologist, poet, surgeon, soldier, psychic, and noted collector, this candid and charming historical biography tells of Gayer-Anderson's strange and eclectic life in the final days of the British empire. As a child, he crossed an unforgiving America with his entrepreneurial and eccentric Irish parents. As a man, he immersed himself in the Arab way of life as colonials seldom did; he saw ghosts and witches, sailed the Nile, wrestled Turks and crocodiles, fought at Gallipoli, smoked opium, performed surgery in the desert, gathered and cared for artefacts and boys in his Cairene home, survived an assassination attempt and, in the name of science and Henry Wellcome, in flowery glades he boiled the flesh from the skulls of Nuba warriors. His personal journals are filled with frank accounts of his exploits and of the illustrious and colorful people who wandered by: Lawrence of Arabia, Gordon, Kitchener, Conan-Doyle, Eric Gill, and Stephen Spender, among others. Drugs, race, class, family, sex, and selfhood are vividly mixed in this tale of two wars, colonial life, medicine, anthropology, and psychic phenomena. The stiff-upper-lipped ritual of a very British upbringing vied with his Romantic and consuming love of beauty, vividly embodied in the Gayer-Anderson Museum in Cairo, which to this day houses his vast collection of carpets, furniture, glassware, and other curios.
Legends Of The Bait Al Kretliya
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Author : Sulaiman al-Kretli
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951
Legends Of The Bait Al Kretliya written by Sulaiman al-Kretli and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with Bait Al-Kretliya (Cairo, Egypt) categories.
Offerings To The Discerning Eye
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Author : Sue D'Auria
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010
Offerings To The Discerning Eye written by Sue D'Auria and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Social Science categories.
Egyptologist Jack A. Josephson, a writer and researcher in the tradition of the gentleman scholar, has achieved broad recognition as an authority in Egyptian art history. His lucid investigative analyses have probed and redefined the limits of inquiry, expanded research parameters, and broadened perspectives, emphasizing the undeniable contributions of art history in an intra-disciplinary framework. This volume of collected essays is dedicated to Josephson by distinguished friends and colleagues, a select roster including eminent, established scholars in the field of Egyptology and rising stars of the younger generation. Josephson views Egyptian art history as a critical but neglected area of study, and is a strong proponent of its reinstatement in the academic curriculum as an essential component in the formation of new cadres. The quality of the articles in this Egyptological medley is a tribute to the honoree and an affirmation of the esteem of his peers, while the range of subjects and variety of themes addressed reflect the degree to which he has, in his own scholarship, undertaken to implement his ideal.
The Gayer Anderson Cat
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Author : Neal Spencer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Gayer Anderson Cat written by Neal Spencer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Animal sculpture categories.
A Second Supplementary Hand List Of The Muhammadan Manuscripts In The University And Colleges Of Cambridge
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Author : A. J. Arberry
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-09-19
A Second Supplementary Hand List Of The Muhammadan Manuscripts In The University And Colleges Of Cambridge written by A. J. Arberry and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Originally published in 1952, this book was written as a continuation of the catalogues of Islamic manuscripts in Cambridge University Library created by Edward Granville Browne. As noted in the preface, the text was 'compiled upon economic lines; but though austere, it will be found to contain the references adequate to establish the identity and significance of each item.' This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Islamic manuscripts and bibliography.
Joyful In Thebes
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Author : Kathlyn M. Cooney
language : en
Publisher: Lockwood Press
Release Date : 2015-08-25
Joyful In Thebes written by Kathlyn M. Cooney and has been published by Lockwood Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-25 with History categories.
An international group of scholars have contributed to Joyful in Thebes, a Festschrift for the distinguished Egyptologist Betsy M. Bryan. The forty-two articles deal with topics of art history, archaeology, history, and philology representing virtually the entire span of ancient Egyptian civilization. These diverse studies, which often present unpublished material or new interpretations of specific issues in Egyptian history, literature, and art history, well reflect the broad research interests of the honoree. Abundantly illustrated with photographs and line drawings, the volume also includes a comprehensive bibliography of Bryan's publications through 2015.
Egyptian Artists Sketches
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Author : Fitzwilliam Museum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Egyptian Artists Sketches written by Fitzwilliam Museum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Art categories.