The Art of Ancient Egypt
Eternal Balance and Beauty
Online Lecture
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Lecturer: Dr Bill Manley
Date: Thursday 17 October, 2024
Duration: 1 hour
Start Time: 10.00am AEDT | 9.00am QLD | 9.30am SA | 7.00am WA | 12.00pm NZST
Price: $25 AUD
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Overview
The distinctive art of ancient Egypt still fires the modern imagination. In vivid, graceful forms, ever-youthful men and women encounter odd, animal-headed gods, amid scenes of work and leisure in a seeming paradise of plain, bright colours, where hieroglyphic texts hint at grand ideas.
As such, the tombs and temples of the Egyptians during the millennia of the pharaohs reveal how art first flowered at the heart of civilization. They also clearly and concisely reveal their views about authority, divinity, beauty and meaning. Whether adapted to delicate jewellery or colossal statues, their decorative forms maintain a human scale and a human face—with human ideas and emotions as their inspiration.
Join Bill Manley, author of "Egyptian Art" in the prestigious Thames and Hudson World Of Art series, for a fascinating exploration of what art meant to people throughout 3,000 years of this uniquely successful civilization.
Your Expert lecturer
Dr Bill Manley is an expert on hieroglyphic texts, best known for devising popular forms of access to learning about pharaonic Egypt.
Bill holds a PhD from University College London (UK). He taught the Ancient Egyptian and Coptic languages for more than thirty years at the Universities of London, Glasgow and Liverpool, and spent five years as Senior Curator for Ancient Egypt at National Museums Scotland. These days he is Co-Director of Egiptología Complutense (a Madrid-based research and teaching charity), Honorary President of Egyptology Scotland, and is working with the survey of a pristine archaeological site beside the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt.
Bill has written about ancient philosophy and culture, early Christian life in Egypt, and the history of Egyptology for scholarly publications and encyclopaedias; and his popular books on pharaonic language and art have been translated into more than twenty languages.
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