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Boston Museum Of Fine: From then came the great dioritf Khafre in the Egyptian Museum at Cairo; the double portrait of Menkure (Menkaure) and his queen in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, executed in a dense slate; the seated Scribe in the Louvre of painted limestone; and the wooden statue, known as the Sheikh-el-Beled, also in the Egyptian Museum at Cairo. Egyptian statues, such as these, represent nearly always figures either standing or seated, and observe what is called the "law of frontality" (a plumb line dropped from the middle of the forehead would divide the figure into two virtually equal parts). There is no bending to right or to left, and the head always faces straight forward.Among other great T'ang painters were Ts'ao Pa and Han Kan (about 750), both celebrated for their pictures of horses, and Chou Fang and Chang Hsiian (late 8th century), who depicted domestic and feminine scenes. A copy of one of Chang's scrolls, made by Emperor Hui Tsung (reigned 1101-1125) of the Sung dynasty, is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
From then until his death he served as director of the excavations of Harvard University and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He was also assistant professor of Semitic archaeology (1905-1910), assistant professor of Egyptology (1910-1914), and professor of Egyptology (1914-1942) at Harvard, and curator of the Egyptian Department of the Boston Museum (1910-1942). Reisner supervised excavations in Egypt, Nubia, the Sudan, and Palestine, and became known especially for his work on the chronology of ancient Cush and on the 4th dynasty of Egypt. In 1925 he announced the discovery of the alabaster sarcophagus of Queen Hetepheres, mother of Khufu (Cheops). His published works include Hearst Medical Papyrus (1905) ; Models of Ships and Boats (1913) ; Excavations at Kerma (2 vols., 1923) ; Harvard Excavations at Samaria (2 vols., 1924) ; and The Development of the Egyptian Tomb (1935). |
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