Prisse d'Avennes. Egyptian Art (Bibliotheca Universalis) (Multilingual Edition)

I was thrilled when I received the book. It’s detailed with beautiful Egyptian art. Which is what I was interested in, very pleased.

My grandson picked this out for his dad who is an artist. My son loved it! A lovely book!

Thick as a brick, unfamiliar and unique photos, well prosed and high-quality paper and binding. Taschen knows how to put out something that's coveted and becomes a hand me down.

This is a beautiful book and I’m going to keep it, but it’s not what I hoped it would be. I guess I should have read the description more carefully. I wanted a book of photos of Egyptian art and artifacts, and to read and learn about the style or history of the art, the culture, etc. This book is illustrations of Egyptian art done in the 19th century by someone who travelled there, with a brief paragraph giving a hint of info for each drawing. Not really an overview of Egyptian art that you can learn anything from. I’ll keep it because it’s still a beautiful book full of beautiful, inspirational drawings. But, reading other reviews, someone recommended instead two other books: The Art and architecture of ancient Egypt, by Yale university press, and The art of ancient Egypt by Gay Robins. Both of these books are on archive.org so I was able to do a full preview, and ended up ordering a practically brand new copy of the Gay Robins book from Abe books (which, btw, is also owned by Amazon), since it wasn’t available here at a reasonable price. This book is exactly what I wanted.

Beautiful book, yet not what I thought it would be. The book is fool of beautiful illustrations of egyptian art, but absolitely zero photographs.. just drawings.. Also, the book is not chronological - there's no explanation how the art developed and changed through years, drawings are shown in a completely random order. I just wish it was a bit more detailed.

I wanted to LOVE this little guy but I have to struggle to read the print and pictures- which I was really looking forward to looking at the art especially.

Doll house coffee table book… Now we understand the low price!!!

El formato, la calidad de las ilustraciones que en la mayor parte son dibujos excelentes. No debe de faltar en nuestro acervo cultural.

Livre de bonne facture, papier de qualité, avec textes en trois langues : anglais, allemand, français et nombreuses images reproduisant une partie des remarquables œuvres de Prisse d'Avennes donnant une idée précise des qualités d'un auteur égyptologue passionné et artiste, le tout pour un prix des plus serrés. Incontournable pour les passionnés de l'Egypte ancienne.

Ich mag diese kleinen Bücher von Taschen sehr. Nutze sie hauptsächlich als Inspirationsquelle für Designs und Illustrationen, daher ist für mich der schriftliche Inhalt eher Nebensache. Ich bin also kein Experte in Ägyptologie und möchte die Texte daher nicht bewerten. Das Format ist bei dieser Reihe an der Grenze von " zu klein ", aber die Fülle an Bilder und Informationen die man für diesen Preis bekommt ist immer toll. Die Aufmachung gefällt.

Edición completa en un tamaño compacto

Ottimo testo con grafica ed illustrazioni belle ed eleganti, un bel regalo a me stesso