Painting antiquity: ancient Egypt in the art of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Edward Poynter and Edwin Long

Contents

The ancient world in the art of Alma-Tadema, Poynter and Long : background, training and appraisals -- Embracing antiquity : the early Egyptian works of Alma-Tadema and Poynter -- 'Something more than painting' : Alma-Tadema, Poynter and the establishment of archaeological genre painting -- Evoking antiquity with heart and mind : Alma-Tadema's and Poynter's Egyptian paintings of the 1870s -- A fascination for 'local colour' : Edwin Long and the customs of ancient Egypt -- From genre to spectacle : Alma-Tadema's return to Egypt -- The currency of objects : artistic, historical and cultural contexts of archaeological genre painting in Britain -- Objects and images : Egyptological and archaeological sources for British archaeological genre painting -- Learned artistry : the methods and preparatory materials of Alma-Tadema, Poynter and Long -- 'A new type of beauty' : critical reception of archaeological genre painting in the nineteenth century -- Rise and fall : critical reception of archaeological genre painting in the new century.