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7%OFFEunice Dauterman Maguire - Weavings from Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Egypt - 9781883015312 - V9781883015312
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Weavings from Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Egypt

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Description for Weavings from Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Egypt Paperback. Offering insights into a lost world of: people's dress, their interior decoration and their view of their relationship, with the natural and supernatural worlds, this book portrays the pleasures of ancient Egypt life in textiles. It explains the work by providing a historical and mythic context, as well as technical explanations. Num Pages: 176 pages, 103 color photographs. BIC Classification: 1QDA; AFW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 268 x 233 x 14. Weight in Grams: 890.

An ancient time brought to life by textiles

While the monumental sculptures of ancient Egypt are more widely known, the simple pleasures of life as it was lived are better portrayed in textiles, which carried designs commemorating the joys of festivals, food, and dancing.  Weavings from Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Egypt presents 103 full-color images of the astonishing textile collection of Rose Choron, featuring rare examples from Egypt’s Coptic Christians as well as the Islamic period.

Dating primarily from the third to seventh centuries, these hand-woven fabrics showcase colorful images of dancers, haloed saints with hands raised in prayer, and a plethora of ... Read more

Eunice Dauterman Maguire explains the work by providing a rich historical and mythic context, as well as detailed technical explanations. This volume also features a preface by Rose Choron herself, explaining the origins of the collection and the source of her fascination with the textiles.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Krannert Art Museum,US United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781883015312
SKU
V9781883015312
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About Eunice Dauterman Maguire
Eunice Dauterman Maguire is curator of the Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Collection. She is the coauthor of Ceramic Art from Byzantine Serres, and was formerly the curator of the Krannert Art Museum.

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