Category:  Architecture

Du site de l'éditeur : Plus de trois cents exemples de voûtes encore conservées en Égypte sont classés par type architectural et par type de monument, royal ou privé, construit en pierre ou en brique. Cette riche documentation, que l’auteur analyse d’un point de vue chronologique, typologique et fonctionnel, est illustrée par un volume de plans, coupes et photographies.

Reviewed by Francesca: Many art and architectural treasures survive from Ancient Egypt. This book offers 400 illustrations of such treasures from the fourth millennium B.C. to the conquest of Alexander the Great. The author examines Ancient Egyptian tombs, temples, palaces, decorations, and many other works of art. A recommended book for the interested student of art and of Egyptology.

From Amazon.com: For three millennia, the Valley of the Nile, from the Delta to Nubia, was an immense construction site. Stierlin shows how all these colossal edifices--pyramids, temples, tombs, palaces, storerooms, and fortresses--were endowed with a moving spiritual quality that made them unique. 170 color illustrations.