{"id":3295,"date":"2020-04-11T13:15:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T18:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2021-09-20T13:03:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T18:03:40","slug":"egyptomania-the-early-years-piranesi-gerome-desprez-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/egyptomania-the-early-years-piranesi-gerome-desprez-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptomania, the Early Years \u2013 Piranesi, Gerome, Desprez (93)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3300\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/egyptomania-the-early-years-piranesi-gerome-desprez-93\/2011-93-tomb-with-sphinxes-and-an-owl\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2011.93-Tomb-with-Sphinxes-and-an-Owl.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3000,2105\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2011.93 &#8211; Tomb with Sphinxes and an Owl\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Louis Jean Desprez&lt;br \/&gt;\nTomb with Sphinxes and an Owl, 1779-84&lt;br \/&gt;\nArt Institute of Chicago (2011.93)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2011.93-Tomb-with-Sphinxes-and-an-Owl-300x211.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2011.93-Tomb-with-Sphinxes-and-an-Owl-1024x719.jpg\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3300 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2011.93-Tomb-with-Sphinxes-and-an-Owl-1024x719.jpg\" alt=\"Louis Jean Desprez, Tomb with Sphinxes and an Owl, 1779-84\" width=\"474\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2011.93-Tomb-with-Sphinxes-and-an-Owl-1024x719.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2011.93-Tomb-with-Sphinxes-and-an-Owl-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2011.93-Tomb-with-Sphinxes-and-an-Owl-768x539.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Egyptomania, the Early Years \u2013 Piranesi, Gerome, Desprez (Ancient Art Podcast 93)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e1u3s-Z0rF4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This short excerpt from my lecture on the art and history of the Egyptomania phenomenon delves into its early origins. As Europe emerged from the Middle Ages, Egyptian antiquities pillaged during the Roman Empire were excavated from their slumber under Roman soil and newly erected across the city. Even before the translation of the Rosetta Stone, before Napoleon&#8217;s epic Egyptian expedition and publication of Description de l&#8217;\u00c9gypte, artists such as Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Louis Jean Desprez were already experimenting and defining what we would come to call Egyptomania. In the subsequent generation, academic painter Jean L\u00e9on G\u00e9r\u00f4me reveals a mature appreciation for ancient Egyptomania in his meticulous renderings of the the Roman Empire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short excerpt from my lecture on the art and history of the Egyptomania phenomenon delves into its early origins. As Europe emerged from the Middle Ages, Egyptian antiquities pillaged during the Roman Empire were excavated from their slumber under Roman soil and newly erected across the city. Even before the translation of the Rosetta &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/egyptomania-the-early-years-piranesi-gerome-desprez-93\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Egyptomania, the Early Years \u2013 Piranesi, Gerome, Desprez (93)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,547],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2011.93-Tomb-with-Sphinxes-and-an-Owl.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7RFIB-R9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}