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'Eternal Egypt' Exhibition Opens in San Francisco

Egypt comes to San Francisco! The Eternal Egypt exhibition, on a multi-city tour throughout the USA, opens August 10, 2002 at the California Palace Legion of Honor Museum and continues through November 11, 2002.

No ancient civilization has left a larger or more varied artistic legacy than Egypt, yet exhibitions of Egyptian art have traditionally emphasized its importance as historical documents rather than as an extraordinary flowering of art. Eternal Egypt is the first major exhibition to take an art historical approach to this great culture, and the first in this country to be drawn solely from the British Museum's outstanding collection of Egyptian antiquities. The nearly 150 renowned masterpieces and other treasures in the exhibition were selected by Edna R. Russmann in conjunction with W.V. Davies, the British Museum's keeper of Egyptian antiquities.

Among the intriguing objects that will be on view in Eternal Egypt are statues and personal possessions of famous pharaohs, including Amenhotep III, Akhenaten, and Ramesses the Great, as well as jewelry, mirrors, cosmetic containers, and other luxury items that were widely produced during the reigns of these pharaohs. The earliest pharaonic portrait is a rare ivory image of a king dating to Dynasty 1 (ca. 3000 BC), while the latest is a carved relief of Ptolemy I, dating to the Ptolemaic period (ca. 305-30 BC), when Egyptian art was strongly influenced by Hellenistic style. The exhibition also contains some of the most well-known examples of funerary art, for which Egypt is justly famous, monumental sculpture, finely wrought figurines, papyrus sheets from the Book of the Dead and the delightful animal fable papyrus, carved and painted reliefs, a Roman panel portrait, and sumptuous decorative art in a variety of media.

These objects provide a fascinating overview of the richness and scope of pharaonic history, from shortly before the First Dynasty, about 3100 B.C., to the Roman occupation of the fourth century A.D. The works are arranged chronologically to reveal the development of Egyptian art over its amazing duration of 35 centuries. The four periods into which ancient Egyptian history is divided--the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, the New Kingdom, and the Late Period--form the exhibition's underlying structure. Within each section the unique and innovative aspects of the period's art, characteristic styles, forms, and genres, are presented.

For tickets and more information, visit http://www.thinker.org

Following its stay in San Francisco, the exhibit travels to the following venues:

The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota--22 December 2002-16 March 2003
The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois--26 April-3 August 2003
The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore Maryland--September 2003-4 January 2004