Art for Eternity: Masterworks from Ancient Egypt, Brooklyn Museum of Art

The enduring popularity and fascination with the art of Egypt is at the heart of this volume. This completely new survey sets out to shatter any conventional beliefs that Egyptian art is obsessed with funerary themes and full of static renderings of the human form. The authors present this art, which has a 7,000 year history, as a product of a civilization wholly different from our own. One hundred of the most significant pieces from the Brooklyn Museum of Art are chronologically organized, revealing how Egyptian 'art' developed and progressed.Fazzini, Richard A. is the author of 'Art for Eternity: Masterworks from Ancient Egypt, Brooklyn Museum of Art' with ISBN 9780872731394 and ISBN 0872731391.