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12/10/2025 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
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Exhibition Lecture

Living Images? Bodies in Ancient Egyptian Art and Experience

Rune Nyord

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Ancient Egyptian images of the body are at the same time both highly recognizable and foreign to the modern viewer. From impossible composite figures of human-animal hybrids to seemingly stiff and block-like human forms in sculpture, Egyptian depictions were meant not simply to capture a likeness, but to manifest powers in order to establish the presence of, and relations between, depicted entities.
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