Penser et représenter le monde. Les images relatives à la conception du monde dans l'Egypte ancienne. Gréco-romain The shock of this encounter

The shock of this encounter with the Orient suggested to them a new artistic sensibility marked by exoticism

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2022 to November 21

Penser et représenter le monde. Les images relatives à la conception du monde dans l'Egypte ancienne. Gréco-romain The shock of this encounterUsing various textual and iconographic sources, the author explores the way in which the ancient Egyptians conceived the world, put it into words and images, that is to say, quite simply, their way of being in the world. This work brings together for the first time the various images of the world as conceived by the ancient Egyptians. Most of them reproduced in drawings, they are described and studied with care, thus complementing the textual