Curl, The Egyptian revival.

Condition : good, slight signs of shelf wear, otherwise very good.
Illustrations : 275 black and white photos and drawings and 40 colour plates.

Revised and enlarged edition of : Egyptomania. 1994. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-532).

Curl describes, here in the third edition, fully updated and greatly expanded from the previous versions, the many revivals of the Egyptian style from antiquity to the present day, drawing on a multitude of sources. It analyses the remarkable and enduring influence of ancient Egyptian culture on the West, developing the argument that ancient Egyptian civilisation is central, rather than peripheral, to the evolution of much Western architecture, art, design and religion. The book traces the persistence of Egyptian motifs in design from Greco-Roman antiquity, through the medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Neo-Classical periods, as well as the rise of Egyptology in the nineteenth century, the twentieth-century manifestations of Egyptomania sparked by the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, and the various aspects of Egyptian trends in the Art Deco style and beyond. Most surprisingly, the book argues that Christianity owes as much, and probably more, to the Nile than to the Jordan.