Title Colour and painting in ancient Egypt / edited by W.V. Davies
Publication Info London : British Museum Press, 2001
Location Call Number Status
 Watson Library Stacks  ND75 .C65 2001    REQUESTABLE
 Paper Conservation  ND75 .C65 2001    IN USE
 Egyptian Art  ND75 .C65 2001    IN USE
Description xvi, 192 p., 56, 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 30 cm
Contents Foreword / W. V. Davies -- Analysis of inorganic yellow colour in ancient Egyptian painting / Sylvie Colinart -- The use of huntite as a white pigment in ancient Egypt / Ann Heywood -- Pigments of some Middle Kingdom coffins / Andrew Middleton and Sylvia Humphrey -- Technical analysis of reds and yellows in the Tomb of Suemniwet, Theban Tomb 92 / Blythe McCarthy -- The binding media of ancient Egyptian painting / Richard Newman and Susana M. Halpine -- The use and identification of varnish on New Kingdom funerary equipment / M. Serpico and R. White -- Colour transformations of ancient Egyptian pigments / Lorna Green -- Reflections on a gilded eye in 'Fowling in the Marshes' (British Museum, EA 37977) / E. Miller and R. B. Parkinson -- Recording and conservation of painted plaster from the early excavations at Amarna / Fran Weatherhead -- The use of the squared grid as a technical aid for artists in Eighteenth Dynasty painted Theban tombs / Gay Robins -- Painting techniques and artisan organization in the Tomb of Suemniwer, Theban Tomb 92 / Betsy M. Bryan -- A family affair: the decoration of Theban Tomb 359 / Cathleen A. Keller -- Art as material for later art: the case of Theban Tomb 65 / Tamas A. Bacs -- Wall paintings in Memphite tombs of the New Kingdom / Geoffrey T. Martin -- The dynastic tombs at Hierakonpolis: painted tombs of the early Eighteenth Dynasty / Renee Friedman -- The dynastic tombs at Hierakonpolis: the lower group and the artist Sedjemnetjeru / W. V. Davies -- Problems of recording and publication of paintings in the Private Tombs of Thebes / Nigel Strudwick -- Vignettes in the papyrus of Ani / T. G. H. James -- Colour use and the distribution of relief and painting in the Temple of Sety I at Abydos / John Baines -- The Egyptian temple, substitute for the mineral universe / Sydney H. Aufrere -- Patterns of colouring on ancient Egyptian coffins from the New Kingdom to the Twenty-sixth Dynasty: an overview / John H. Taylor -- Red things: the symbolism of colour in magic / Geraldine Pinch -- Colour vocabularies in Ancient Egyptian / Stephen Quirke
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subjects Painting, Egyptian -- Congresses
Painting, Ancient -- Egypt -- Congresses
Color in art -- Congresses
Painting -- Technique -- Congresses
Pigments -- Analysis -- Congresses
Egypt -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Additional Authors Davies, W. V.
Other Edition Online version: Colour and painting in ancient Egypt. (OCoLC)606833893
Material Type Conference papers and proceedings.
ISBN 0714119288 (pbk.)
OCLC 46809393