Christiane Ziegler

Günter Gauglitz

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In Memory of Professor Wolfgang Göpel

Celebrated in literature and Hollywood movies, the lives of the Ancient Egyptian queens have become synonymous with power, beauty, and glory. Cleopatra, Nefertiti, Nefertari and Hatchepsut are familiar names today, although the women themselves are not known as well as the mythology around them. The wives, mothers, or daughters of pharaohs, their influence on three thousand years of ancient Egyptian history is indisputable. This book offers a unique and heretofore unexplored insight into the key role they played and unveils the true nature of their political and spiritual influence, which was very different from the cliched portrayals most readers are familiar with. Some of the questions answered in this book include: What was the real status of the Egyptian queens? What was the status of second wives and concubines? What was their role in religious celebrations? What was their beauty regime?

From Hetepheres to Cleopatra

Queens of Egypt

Musée des beaux-arts du Canada

National Gallery of Canada

Musée du Louvre

Michael Pantazzi

Jean-Marcel Humbert

Réunion des musées nationaux (France)

Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienne)

Published to accompany exhibition held at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, 20/1 - 18/4 1994 and travelling. The works in this exhibition show the influence of Egypt on western artists working in the eighteenth century.

Egypt in Western Art, 1730-1930 : [exhibition] Paris, Musée Du Louvre, 20 January-18 April 1994; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, 17 June-18 September 1994; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 16 October 1994-29 January 1995

Egyptomania

Christiane Ziegler

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