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[https://www.artic.edu/articles/977/re-viewing-ancient-egyptian-art-at-the-art-institute by Ashley F. Arico 8/3/22 ART INSTITVTE CHICAGO] | [https://www.artic.edu/articles/977/re-viewing-ancient-egyptian-art-at-the-art-institute by Ashley F. Arico 8/3/22 ART INSTITVTE CHICAGO] | ||
Since joining the Art Institute in July 2017 as the museum’s first full-time specialist in the arts of ancient Egypt, she has launched a successful “Egyptian Art Pop-Up Talk” series and installed Ptolemaic Egyptian works in the Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art. In February 2022, Ashley debuted a new gallery of ancient Egyptian art. Prior to her time at the Art Institute, she held positions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum; and the Walters Art Museum, where she contributed to the exhibition Egypt’s Mysterious Book of the Faiyum (2013). She has also excavated at the temple of the lioness-headed goddess Mut in Luxor, Egypt. | Since joining the Art Institute in July 2017 as the museum’s first full-time specialist in the arts of ancient Egypt, she has launched a successful “Egyptian Art Pop-Up Talk” series and installed Ptolemaic Egyptian works in the Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art. In February 2022, Ashley debuted a new gallery of ancient Egyptian art. Prior to her time at the Art Institute, she held positions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum; and the Walters Art Museum, where she contributed to the exhibition Egypt’s Mysterious Book of the Faiyum (2013). She has also excavated at the temple of the lioness-headed goddess Mut in Luxor, Egypt. | ||
=====Materials and techniques in ancient Egyptian art===== | |||
[https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizations/egypt-art/beginners-guide-egypt/a/materials-techniques by Khan Academy] | |||
Egyptian artists used a wide array of materials, both local and imported, from very early in their history. For instance, already in the Predynastic period, we find figurines carved from lapis lazuli—a lustrous blue stone that originates in what is now Afghanistan and indicates the early presence of robust trade routes. | |||
