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updated March 2009
©2004-2009 Noreen Doyle
(An incomplete and in progress)
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Author?  1988.  Title?  How Magazine: ideas and techniques in graphic design 3.3 (March/April). Contains an article "Using watercolor paints and pencils, Jill Karla Schwartz illustrates a children’s book whose locale is ancient Egypt."

De Meulenaere, Herman; Berko, Patrick; Berko, Viviane. 1993. Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth Century Painting.  Knokke-Het Zoute: Berko Edition Fine Paintings. A thematic presentation of paintings both of modern views and of Egyptianizing subjects.

Delvaux, Luc, "Les Aventures de Papyrus" de Lucien De Gieter: approche égyptologique d’une bande dessinée.  In: L’Égyptomanie à l’épreuve de l’archéologie. Actes du colloque international organisé au musée du Louvre par le Service culturel du musée du Louvre. Ed. Jean-Marcel Humbert. Bruxelles, Éditions du Gram / Paris, Musée du Louvre = Conférences et colloques du Louvre: 607-624. Discussion of a comic strip with an Egyptian theme.

Meinardus, Otto F.A., 1996. The resuscitation of Anubis in modern Coptic art. Discussions in Egyptology (Oxford)  34: 29-36. Six works by the modern Coptic painter  George Onsy.

(Mönnig, Peter.) 1994. Die Ägypter am Rhein aus der Sammlung Peter Mönnig [6.2.-4.4.’94]/. Xanten: Archäologischer Park / Regionalmuseum Xanten, Landschaftsverband Rheinland = Führer und Schriften des Regionalmuseums Xanten 36. In his work the artist explores the connection between Egyptian forms of representation and the present day.

NEW 3/09: Parry III, Ellwood C. 1980. Thomas Cole's imagination at work in the Architect's Dream. American Art Journal 12. 1 (Winter):41-59.

Patterson, Jennifer Danielle. 2002. Beyond Orientalism: Nineteenth century Egyptomania and Frederick Arthur Bridgman's "The Funeral of a Mummy." MA thesis, University of Louisville.

Rammant-Peeters, Agnès.  1998.  "L'affaire Cléopâtre" ou comment la photographie servit de véhicule à l'imagination du XIXème siècle. In: Egyptian Religion: The Last Thousand Years. Parts I-II. Studies Dedicated to the Memory of Jan Quaegebeur. Ed. Willy Clarysse, Antoon Schoors, Harco Willems. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies = Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 85: 1449-1457. (pl.).

Raven, Maarten J. 1996., L’égyptomanie aux Pays-Bas: Alma-Tadema et Testas.  In: L’Égyptomanie à l’épreuve de l’archéologie. Actes du colloque international organisé au musée du Louvre par le Service culturel du musée du Louvre. Ed. Jean-Marcel Humbert. Bruxelles, Éditions du Gram / Paris, Musée du Louvre = Conférences et colloques du Louvre: 461-478. The relatively late appearance of Egyptomania in the Netherlands, although particularly in painting the theme received upper-class attention earlier.

Stegmaier, Mark E. 1984. Keith Achepohl. American Artist 48/504 (July):??-??. "For this distinguished Iowa artist, the most appropriate response to Egyptian architecture was a series of abstract compositions of textures, colors, and forms. Some of his colorful etchings, lithographs, and watercolors are shown."

Vilela, Eduardo. 2006. Imagining Egypt: the art of Eduardo Vilela. Kmt 17.1:77-82. Portfolio of paintings by this Brazilian artist.

 Warlick, M. E.  1992. Mythic rebirth in Gustav Klimt's Stoclet Frieze: new considerations of its Egyptianizing form and content. The Art Bulletin 74.1 (March):115-134.

Weiley, Susan. 1991.  Sarah Charlesworth's abracadabra. ArtNews 90.3 (March 1991): 116-121.Egyptian images are among the sources drawn from by this artist.

Whitehouse, Helen.  2003. Archaeology wedded to art: Egyptian architecture in 19th century painting.  In: Imhotep Today: Egyptianizing architecture. Ed. Jean-Marcel Humbert and Clifford Price. London: UCL Press, Institute of Archaeology.


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