The Painted Tomb-Chapel of Nebamun: Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art in the British Museum
Publishing Details
The Painted Tomb-Chapel of Nebamun: Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art in the British Museum
By (Author) Richard Parkinson
British Museum Press
British Museum Press
1st April 2008
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
History of art
759.932
Physical Properties
152
Width 270mm, Height 216mm
Description
The paintings from Nebamun's tomb chapel are among the greatest and most famous of the British Museum's treasures. Yet much about them remains mysterious, and this book is concerned with the detective work undertaken to help us to understand and see them properly before they are displayed in a new permanent gallery in 2008. For this the paintings are being conserved and remounted in the Museum's specialist laboratories, a process that is revealing radical new information about painting techniques in ancient Egypt. This, together with archival work, is helping us to solve the problem of the tomb-chapel's location at Thebes, last seen in the 1820s when the paintings were removed. Richard Parkinson discusses each painting fully, with reconstructions and translations of the hieroglyphic texts, a discussion of the other known fragments (now in Berlin and Avignon) and a reconstruction of the whole tomb chapel. Every fragment is fully illustrated in colour, doing full justice to an artist who has been described as 'antiquity's equivalent of Michelangelo'.
Reviews
"...[an] excellent, accessible book...--Tom Hardwick "The Art Newspaper, July-August 2008 "
This book is a delight and the superb colour illustrations show these truly amazing paintings in all their glory and fine detail... This book is not to be missed.'--Ancient Egypt Magazine, June/July 2008
The book not only illustrates the paintings as never seen before, it puts them into context for their content and style.'--Peter A. Clayton "Minerva, July/August 2008 "
This book cannot be praised too highly: it tells the reader everything he or she would ever wish to know about Nebamuns paintings and illustrates them in splendid and comprehensive style.'--A. Dodson "KMT: A Modern Journal of Egyptology, Vol. 19, No. 2, Summer 2008 "
Author Bio
Dr Richard Parkinson is a curator of Egyptian antiquities in the British Museum.
