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Partially restored. The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion. [ 1 ] Facing directly from west to east, it stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt. The face of the Sphinx appears to represent the pharaoh Khafre. [ 2 ]
Although Richard Pococke in the same year visited and later published a stylish rendering (in A Description of the East and Some other Countries, 1743), he drew the Sphinx with the nose still on. Pococke's drawing is a faithful adoption of Cornelis de Bruijn's drawing of 1698 (Voyage to the Levant, 1702, English trans.), featuring only minor ...
David Roberts RA RBA (24 October 1796 – 25 November 1864) was a Scottish painter. He is especially known for The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia, a prolific series of detailed lithograph prints of Egypt and the Near East that he produced from sketches he made during long tours of the region (1838–1840).
Bonaparte Before the Sphinx. Bonaparte Before the Sphinx (French: Bonaparte devant le Sphinx) is an 1886 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It is also known as Oedipus (Œdipe). It depicts Napoleon Bonaparte during his Egyptian campaign, positioned on horseback in front of the Great Sphinx of Giza, with his army in the background.
While it was never recovered, a detailed drawing of the sphinx remained. In the drawing, the inscription — composed of a handful of characters — can be seen on the base of the statue. For ...
The Great Sphinx Pyramids of Gezeeh illustration bby David Roberts (1796-1864). Short title: The Great Sphinx Pyramids of Gezeeh illustration bby David Roberts (1796-1864). Horizontal resolution: 300 dpi: Vertical resolution: 300 dpi: Software used: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.8 (Macintosh) File change date and time: 13:19, 14 June 2018: Exif ...
Ancient Egyptian architecture. Top: Great Pyramid of Giza (c. 2589–2566 BC); Centre: Columns of the Great Hypostyle Hall from the Temple of Karnak (c. 1294–1213 BC); Bottom: Temple of Isis from Philae (c. 380 BC-117 AD) Years active. c. 3100 BC-300 AD.
Oedipus and the Sphinx, Ingres, 1808. Oil on Canvas. Louvre, Paris. Oedipus and the Sphinx is an 1864 oil on canvas painting by Gustave Moreau that was first exhibited at the French Salon of 1864 where it was an immediate success. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The work was a fresh treatment of the established subject of the ...