Connections contradictions art: Modern and contemporary from Atlanta collections

Arnold, Genevieve

Michael C. Carlos Museum

This volume brings together superb 17th-century paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, and decorative arts from the Southern Netherlands, the area now known as Belgium. Representing one of the greatest periods in the history of European art, the book includes the work of Rubens, van Dyck, and Jordaens, along with contemporary examples of furniture, metalwork, glass, and other objects of the same extraordinary quality.
 An introductory essay examines Flemish artistic production in context, both by describing the impact of the Eighty Years' War and by focusing on the prominent figures in the political and artistic life of the time.

So Many Brilliant Talents: Art & Craft in the Age of Rubens

Baer, Ronni

Arts & Photography

For centuries after their reigns, the "bad" emperors of Rome have captured the popular imagination, their legends inspiring novels, works of art, and films. "From Caligula to Constantine" explores how these and other notorious figures of Roman history were portrayed during their lifetimes, and the reaction to their deaths. In a world without mass media, portraits in stone, bronze, and other materials broadcast the ruler's image throughout the empire, exalting him and representing him in the best possible light. When an emperor was overthrown, the portraits could themselves suffer a violent fate. When an emperor or empress was condemned, a portrait could be simply removed and discarded; it could be deliberately disfigured; or it could be removed and reworked to represent someone else. "From Caligula to Constantine" focuses on the "bad" emperors and empresses of Rome, exploring their legends, their personalities, and their representation in sculptures, gems, and coins.

From Caligula to Constantine: Tyranny & Transformation in Roman Portraiture

History & Criticism

The Thalassic Collection, Ltd., is one of the world's greatest private collections of Egyptian art, consisting of over 175 rare and beautiful objects ranging in date from 3500 B.C. to the Roman era in the first century A.D. These exceptional relics of Pharaonic civilization are lavishly illustrated here, along with contributions from over 20 scholars on Egyptomania, Egyptian art and history, and materials and techniques in Egyptian art. The collection is particularly rich in important sculptures, both significant historical monuments as well as artistic masterpieces. Also included are a large number of exquisite small items including magnificent jewels and amulets, inlays and architectural decorations, and painstakingly crafted objects of everyday use. Lastly, the collection also documents the development of Egyptology in the 18th and 19th centuries through outstanding examples of Egyptomania, including the evocative paintings of Gerome, David Roberts, and Howard Carter.

The Collector's Eye: Masterpieces of Egyptian Art from the Thalassic Collection, Ltd.

Spanning a period of over 3000 years of ancient Egyptian history, this catalogue presents full-color illustrations of many never-before-published artifacts, with essays on the history of the collection, mummification, and modern medical imaging of ancient remains.

Realm of Osiris: Mummies, Coffins and Ancient Egyptian Funerary Art in the Michael C. Carlos Museum

Lacovara, Peter

The arts of the ancient Americas are diverse, visually arresting, and sometimes enigmatic. In this wide-ranging catalogue, nearly six hundred works of art from Mesoamerica southward are presented, with particular emphasis on the lesser-known area of ancient Costa Rica. Included are works from Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, created in clay, stone, metal, wood, fiber, bone, and shell. Important pieces receive in-depth treatment -- a two-thousand-year-old Costa Rican female shaman effigy, the earliest known sculptural rendition of the Maya hieroglyph for the animal spirit, and gold earspools probably worn by a high official in the ChimÖ Empire of Peru. A major emphasis is placed on the shamanic experience of transformation into animal selves, since this subject preoccupied artists throughout the ancient Americas. New and exciting research, including ground-breaking geological analyses of greenstones (ìjadesî) by William B. Size, makes this catalogue an act of discovery.

Seeing With New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas

Stone-Miller, Rebecca

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

This highly readable catalogue for the special exhibition of the same name describes in 205 pages more than 160 works of art and artifacts from a renowned British collection. The show's United States tour began in April 2005 at Emory University's Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, Georgia and continues through June 2009. The objects are explained in 12 richly illustrated chapters that deal with various aspects of ancient Egyptian art and material culture: chronology; sculpture; archaeology; sites; weights and measures; daily life; writing; arts and crafts; ceramics; funerary works; tools and weapons; and faience and glass objects. First and foremost, Excavating Egypt... is the story of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, founded through bequest in 1892 by writer Amelia Edwards (1831-1892) at University College London. It was named after Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942), a professor of Egyptian Archaeology. Edwards' numerous trips to the land of the pharaohs were described in her popular A Thousand Miles Up the Nile (1877); the book introduced British readers to Egypt, its people and ancient monuments.

Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

History

Quirke, Stephen

Teasley-trope, Betsy

Ancient Civilizations

Antichita, Teatro, Magnificenza : Renaissance & Baroque Images of Rome [Antichità]

Sarah McPhee

Eric R. Varner

Jason Ciejka

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