Ancient Egyptian art has been integral to the Toledo Museum of Art's collection since its earliest days, when Museum founders Edward Drummond Libbey and Florence Scott Libbey brought eleven crates of artifacts back to Toledo from Cairo in 1906. Despite that long history, this is the first time a survey of the Museum's important Egyptian collection has been published. Features an informative essay on Egyptian art and culture by William H. Peck, archaeologist and former Curator of Ancient Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts, plus examinations of more than 80 works spanning 4,000 years, from the Predynastic Period to the Roman Period.

Egypt in Toledo: The Ancient Egyptian Collection at the Toledo Museum of Art

Sandra E. Knudsen

Paula Reich

Willam H. Peck

Arts & Photography

Toledo Museum of Art

<p>The Toledo Museum of Art is one of America's great museums. Supported by devoted and generous members since it was chartered in 1901, the Museum has grown to be a palace for the arts. On its thirty-six acre campus, visitors discover three core buildings, more than forty galleries, the Peristyle concert hall, a sculpture garden, and classrooms and studios for artists young and old. This book celebrates the heart of the Museum the art collection. The 300 masterworks featured in this book honor more than a century of collecting. The Toledo Museum is world-famous for its Old Master paintings and its comprehensive representation of the art of glass. Less well-known but no less outstanding are its choice collections of art from Asia, Africa, and the ancient Mediterranean. Visitors to the galleries and readers of this book will enjoy a virtual journey from the Ancient World through Modernism as they encounter paintings and sculptures arranged in harmony with superb examples of tableware, jewelry, furniture, prints, and photographs. The selections in this book highlight works by such famous artists as Exekias, Dürer, El Greco, Rembrandt, Rubens, Fragonard, Gainsborough, David, Turner, Cole, Courbet, Monet, Degas, van Gogh, Steichen, Picasso, Hopper, Brancusi, Miró, Chihuly, and Kiefer. Recent additions of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art suggest that Toledo s second century of collecting will be as illustrious as its first. Each of the 300 works of art, including the Museum s three stunningly beautiful and strikingly different buildings, is illustrated in color, with brief, informative comments. Index</p>

Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks

Jutta-Annette Page

Lawrence W. Nichols

Don Bacigalupi

Amy Gilman

Edward T. Hill

Thomas Loeffler

Andrea M. Mall

Carolyn M. Putney

Richard H. Putney

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