K. Michalowski - L'Art de l'Ancienne Egypte - 1968

Art of Ancient Egypt by Kazimierz Michałowski - Editions d'Art Lucien Mazenod, Paris 1968 -
Collection: Art and the Great Civilisations - A reference work, bringing together a very large color and black-and-white iconography: 968 photographs, many in full color on large pages -
Publisher's white cloth binding, spine titled, the top cover adorned with a color vignette mounted, under illustrated dust jacket, flyleaf and front free endpaper illustrated, 601 pages, In-Folio (32 x 25.5 cm) -
At the end of the work there is substantial documentation gathering captioned photographs as well as the archaeological sites, the chronology of the dynasties, royal crowns and scepters, the deities of ancient Egypt, the hieroglyphic characters, the canons of Egyptian art, examples of funerary architecture, the canons of the classical Egyptian temple, columns and capitals, Maps -
Bibliography and Names cited in the Work - Very good condition, nevertheless the dust jacket very slightly worn -
Table of contents: The Enigma of the Sphinx and Hieroglyphs (the discovery of Egyptian art) /
On the Nile (the country and the people) /
The Mysterious Signs (the language and literature) /
The Gods write History (the chronological frames) /
The Sky and the Stars (religion) /
The Sun rises (the beginnings of art, pre-dynastic era and Thinite dynasties) /
The Horizon of Ra (architecture and art of the Old Kingdom) /
Khnum creates Man (the canon of human representation) /
After the Eclipse (decline of the Intermediate Period and renaissance under the Middle Kingdom) /
The Zenith of Amon and Aton (the classical art of the New Kingdom) /
The Earthly Habitat of the Gods (the temple canon and the architecture of the great conquerors) /
Before Sunset (the Late Period) /
Birth of the New God (Christian Egypt) /