EGYPTIAN DELIGHTS

Love’s Labour Lost, at the Vero Beach Museum of Art
A visitor studies Edwin Longsden Long’s, Love’s Labour Lost, at the Vero Beach Museum of Art. VBMA

 

Exhibit highlights era when Europe ‘discovered’ Egypt

Edwin Longsden Long’s, Love’s Labour Los
Edwin Longsden Long’s, Love’s Labour Lost, 1885, oil on canvas. DAHESH MUSEUM

Ancient Egypt remained a mystery to most of Western Europe for centuries. While the magical civilization with its pyramids, temples, pharaohs and hieroglyphics had fascinated the world since the Greek and Roman periods, it wasn’t until Napoleon’s occupation of Egypt from 1798 to 1801 that the wonders of that culture were documented, ultimately drawing attention to that country and to the Orient in general. 

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