Together with Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge, and the ‘Re-‘ interdisciplinary research network, the PriArc project organizes the open conference ‘Repetition, Revival, Reconstruction: The Visual Culture of Architecture 1750-1900’. The conference is organized by PriArc professor Caroline van Eck and postdoc Maude Bass-Krueger. Speakers include […]
PriArc PhD Eirik Bøhn gives the lecture “The Pen and the Chisel: Outlining Ancient Egypt for a Modern European Future” at the Royal Drawing School at Shoreditch, London, 26 June 2019. Bøhn explores the role of drawings and engravings in the Napoleonic survey of Egypt, arguing that these images of Egyptian antiquity pointed as much […]
The lavishly illustrated volume Images of Egypt was awarded the diploma for the most beautiful book of the year at the prestigious award ceremony organized by the Norwegian Association for Visual Communication, GRAFILL. Aslak Gurholt from the design bureau Yokoland has designed the book, which was praised by the jury for its classic yet contemporary flair, […]
In July 1798, General Bonaparte invaded Egypt with an army of soldiers, engineers and scholars. One month later, Admiral Nelson destroyed the French fleet in the Battle of the Nile. Situated between Europe and India, Egypt now became the Middle East for European empires. Since then, images of Egyptian landscapes and monuments have circulated as […]
Touring Belgium, A Nation’s Patrimony in Print ca 1795-1914 is a three-part PriArc event, starting with a one day PhD symposium and an open call-for-papers-conference at Ghent University, followed by a two-day tour of Belgium, visiting cities and places such as Ypres, Veurne, Ostend, and Waterloo. The tour studies uses of the past in many […]
The monolithic alabaster sarcophagus of Seti I, discovered in the Valley of the Kings by the explorer Giovanni Belzoni in 1817, was brought to London in 1821. In February 1824, it was purchased by the English architect Sir John Soane for the sum of £2000. This facsimile is produced by Factum Arte as part of […]
In 1977, British artist David Hockney created a series of set designs for The Magic Flute for a performanceat Glyndebourne House in East Sussex, UK. In Outside the Temple, Hockney introduced images from the Déscription de l’Égypte to portray Sarastro’s kingdom and palace.The profile of Ramesses, figuring lower left, and the face resting against the […]
Hollywood director Cecil B. DeMille made the first iteration of his biblical epic The Ten Commandments (1923) in the sand dunes of Guadalupe, California. The film set, erected by some one thousand workers, was designed by famed art deco fashion designer Paul Iribe. When the filming was over DeMille had the whole site bulldozed. Soon, the […]
Eds: Mari Lending, Eirik Arff Gulseth Bøhn and Tim Anstey Oslo: Pax, 2018 Since Napoleon invaded Egypt with an army of soldiers and scholars in 1798, images of Egyptian landscapes and monuments have circulated as fantasy and reality in the West. Soon after the Western […]
