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BOULDER, Colo. – Discerning collectors of cultural art always look forward to Artemis Gallery’s auctions produced under the “Exceptional Antiquities” banner. That particular series of .
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Egypt Centre fundraising lecture. Tickets for this event cost £5. We also welcome additional donations, for which we are extremely grateful!
About this Event
Abstract:
The late 19th and early 20th centuries are popularly called the “Golden Age” of Egyptology – a term that begs a lot of questions. Golden for whom? And how? Large-scale excavations in Egypt, both official and unofficial, enriched museum and private collections outside Egypt, and scientific and popular publications brought Pharaonic Egypt to ever more interested and informed audiences. Robert de Rustafjaell is one of the strangest and most mysterious figures of this period – a bigamist, a serial absconder and man of many aliases, an amasser of valuable and worthless objects including the oldest paintings in the world on canvas and a relic of the true cross, a Zelig-like figure who turns up in the oddest places – and one whose Egyptian collections enriched the Egypt Centre Swansea. This