Egyptomania in Paris: A Scavenger Hunt Blog

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     On 18 June 2013, students in "Building Paris," part of the University of South Florida's Art and Art History Summer program in Paris, fanned out across the city in search of examples of Egyptomania--art created in the spirit of ancient Egypt. Course instructor Dr. Mary B. Shepard (aka "La prof")assigned herself two sites as well, both of which were new to her. Her first two posts, on the Parc Monceau and Montparnasse Cemetery, bookend the period of Egyptomania we explored--from the second half of the eighteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century. But the real work was done by the outstanding students in the course. They are:

Maura Gleeson, MA student in Art History, University of Florida and 

Phillip Townsend, Senior Art History Major, University of South Florida

Bryanna Tramontana, Senior Art History Major, University of South Florida

Dustin Beck, Senior Studio Art Major, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith

Anita Braham, Senior Art History Major, University of Florida

Beth Plakidas, MFA student, University of South Florida and 

Ali Terndrup, MA student in Art History, University of South Florida

Anna Ross, MA student in Art History, University of Florida

Emily Reed, Senior Art History Major, University of South Florida

Becca Barton, Senior Graphic Design Major, University of Tampa

Left to right: Anita Braham, Becca Barton, Lindsay Persohn, Ph.D. student in Education, University of South Florida, and Emily Reed

THE SOURCES WE CONSULTED

Appelbaum 2012. Diana Muir Appelbaum,  "Jewish Identity and Egyptian Revival Architecture," Journal of Jewish Identities, vol. 5 (2012): 1-23.

Curl 2005. James Stevens Curl, The Egyptian Revival: Ancient Egypt as the Inspiration for Design Motifs in the West (Abingdon and New York, 2005).

Humbert and Price 2003. Jean-Marcel Humbert and Clifford Price, ed., Imhotep Today: Egyptianizing architecture (London, 2003).

Paris, Ottawa, Vienna 1994. Egyptomania: Egypt in Western Art, 1730-1930, exhibition catalogue: Paris, Musée du Louvre, et al. (Paris, 1994).

Porterfield 1998. Todd Porterfield, The Allure of Empire: Art in the Service of French Imperialism, 1798-1836 (Princeton, 1998).

And in French:

Humbert 1998. Jean-Marcel Humbert, L’Egypt à Paris (Paris, 1998). 

Lesbros 2012. Dominique Lesbros, Curiosités de Paris (Paris, 2012).