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List of Illustrations | |
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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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The Argument | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Egypt and Europe | |
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The Idea of Egypt in the European Mind | |
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The Isiac Religion | |
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The Absorption of Egyptian Religion into the Groeco-Roman World | |
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Obelisks | |
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The Isaeum Campense | |
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Pyramids | |
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Epilogue | |
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Some Manifestations of Egyptianisms from the Time of Trajan to the Early Renaissance Period | |
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Introduction | |
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The Villa Adriana at Tivoli | |
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Egypt, Rome, and the Emperors | |
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The Reality of Egypt in Recession | |
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The Transformation of Isis | |
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The Proto-Revival and the Survival of Egyptian and Egyptianising Artefacts | |
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Further Manifestations with Egyptian Connotations in Europe from the Renaissance to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century | |
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The Mensa Isiaca | |
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Records and Drawings | |
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Egyptianisms in Design | |
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The Hermetic Tradition | |
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Some Manifestations of Egyptiana | |
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Travellers and Speculators | |
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Bernini | |
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The French Connection | |
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Egyptian Elements in Eighteenth-Century Europe to the Time of Piranesi | |
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Explorers of the Eighteenth Century | |
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Further Baroque Themes | |
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The Search for Stereometrical Purity | |
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The Individual Contribution of Giovanni Battista Piranesi | |
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The Legacy of Piranesi | |
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The Egyptian Revival from the Time of Piranesi until the Napoleonic Campaigns in Egypt | |
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Introduction | |
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The Tomb and Egyptianising Forms | |
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Egyptianisms in Design before the Impact of Denon and the Description | |
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The Invasion | |
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The Egyptian Revival after the Napoleonic Campaigns in Egypt | |
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Introduction | |
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Denon | |
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Thomas Hope and the Neo-Classical Use of Egyptianisms | |
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The Description and the Glorification of Napoleon | |
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Freemasonry | |
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Furniture Design, and Other Egyptianising Manifestations | |
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Applications of the Egyptian Style | |
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Introduction: Die Zauberflote | |
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Stage-Designs and Mozart | |
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The Commercial Picturesque and the Adoption of Egyptian Forms | |
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Other Egyptianising Designs | |
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The Egyptian Revival in Funerary Architecture | |
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Introduction | |
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Funerary Exemplars | |
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The New Cemeteries | |
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Pugin | |
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Commemorative Egyptianisms | |
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Conclusion | |
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Aspects of the Egyptian Revival in the Later Part of the Nineteenth Century | |
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Introduction | |
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Travellers and Scholars | |
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The Egyptian Revival in the Hands of Serious Egyptologists | |
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The Individual Contribution of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson | |
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The Victorian Vision of Egypt | |
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Electicism and Design | |
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The Egyptian Revival in the Twentieth Century | |
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Introduction | |
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Egyptianising Architecture from 1900 to 1922 | |
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Tutankhamun and Art-Deco | |
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Later Developments | |
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Epilogue | |
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A Postscript | |
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Introduction | |
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The Longevity of Nilotic Themes | |
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Afterword | |
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Select Glossary | |
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Select Bibliography | |
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Index | |