Author: Schwaller de Lubicz, R. A.
Title: The Temples of Karnak
Description: Rochester, Vermont, Inner Traditions, 1999. Hardcover. A navy hardcover book with the title in gilt lettering down the spine. There is a blue-toned dust jacket with the title printed in white down the spine. The free and pasted end pages are illustrated. Pages: (6), 1-728. Profusely illustrated with more than six hundred black-and-white images. "This book is a magnificent excursion led by R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz to the monuments, ruins, statues, and bas-reliefs of the temples of Karnak. With nearly 600 photographs by Georges and Valentine de Mire, more than 450 of which are full-page plates, this volume is the only complete photographic record of this important historic site. Because of recent vandalism many of the artifacts are no longer intact, and it is no longer possible to see many of the details captured in these images._ This promenade through the temples of Karnak reveals the remains of a world devoted to an unimpeachable faith in the afterlife, a faith whose conviction seems to have exalted its builders and artists, as was the case for several brief centuries with those who constructed the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. One did not work at fashioning these stones, nor were these works sculpted under someone in strict authority; here it was necessary to act out of the heart. Every gesture in the depictions, every arrangement in the buildings, is a hieroglyph from the symbolic language of the sages who spoke to spirit and consciousness. VG+/VG+: Exlibrary book with stamps on the front and back free end pages, as well as on the top text block. Sticker and due date card on the back pasted end page. Sticker on the mylar cover at the base of the spine. Clean, bright pages with strong binding. Sharp corners.

Keywords: Classical Art/Antiquities ; Egypt ; ;


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