Talk:Egyptian Revival architecture

message: The best bit of Egyptian Revival Architecture that I know is here: Carreras Cigarrette Factory  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johncandrew (talk • contribs) 10:52, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
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Curl () Suggests in his section on Egyptian Revival architecture that 
"Elements of ancient Egyptian architecture were found in Hellenistic and Roman architecture in antiquity. After Egypt became part of the [missing?], Roman and Egyptian deities (especially the goddess Isis and her consort Osiris, whom the Greeks and Romans called Serapis) were venerated by the Romans the process accelerated: not only were many Egyptian artefacts, including obelisks brought to Rome and re-erected to embellish Roman buildings, but countless objects in the style of egyptian arts were made in europe. Ancient Obelisks were again set up in renaissance rome, where they can be seen in several locations today, and huge numbers of egyptian and egyptianizing artefacts re-emerged to grace the collects in the vatican and elsewhere. During the latter half of the C18, egyptian motifs began to intrigue designers in the west. Piranesi designed an egyptian interior for the caffe degl'Inglesi, Piazza di Spagna, Rome (c1768) which he published together with a number of fireplaces in an egyptian style, in Diverse Maniere d'adornare i Cammini (different ways of decorating chimneypieces, 1769). This work included illustrations of the Roman telamones and figure of Antinous from the villa Adriana, Tivoli (all C2), bogus hieroglyphs, Apis bulls, various Nilotic motifs and also corbelled pseudo arches-arches of stepped form which passed into western artistic consciousness as 'Egyptian'. At the time, many architects, influenced by French theorists such as Laugier, began to discard architectural ornament deemed to be inessential, and, prompted by a growing admiration for the primitive, explored the possibilities of simple, basic geometries that would bring clarity, severity and integrity to their compositions. Ancient egyptian forms such as battered rectilinear buildings, obelisks and pyramids, were combined with cubes, spheres etc. in the developing language of Neo-classicism. C18 archaeological activity that encourageda scholarly and accurate approach to antiquity, especially the study of buildings in Rome, pompeii, herculaneum, greece, sicily and paestrum, encouraged by Winckelmann among others, also turned to egypt. The napoleonic investigations of egyptian architecture, published from 1802 by Denon and the Commission des Sciences et Arts d'Egypte from 1809 to 1829, did for Egyptian architecture what Stuart and revett had done for Greek." - and we're half way through. 
Does anyone have any information that might contradict this or opinions on whether or not I should rewrite it and post it into the article? Many thanks, --Mcginnly | Natter 01:07, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: On a tongue in cheek note - can we add the Las Vegas hotel and casino featuring the sphinx and the pyramids as a post-modern variant? --Mcginnly | Natter 01:15, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Nice to see Curl again.  His Celebration of Death is classic for those of us who - but i digress.  The part about bringing Egyptian artifacts to Rome seems at best marginally related to the ERevival movement unless [and this is a possibility] it can be shown that these remains influenced later designers.  Certainly the explosion in "archaeological activity" in the 18 and 19 C needs to be addressed.  I'm working on some ER pictures from America that should be ready soon.  Carptrash 18:51, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  There is no doubt in my mind that i'll support anything you wish to add to the article.  I can even toss in some pictures of Egyptiqan oblisques [ ??????  -  you know - those pointy things] from Rome if it goes that way.  To me, though, that is not Revival stuff, it's the real thing. Carptrash 23:06, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Making a good point, that the re-use of Egyptian antiquities is not "Egyptian Revival" until they are set into an Egyptianizing context. Sir John Soane collected some Egyptian antiquities but didn't display them in a neo-Egyptian setting. The earliest set-up I can recall is Thomas Hope's "Egyptian Hall" in his house-cum-public museum in Piccadilly, which he illustrated in Household Decoration (1807). I'm reminded from the other lobe of the brain that New York City had an Egyptian-themed monumental rectangular reservoir in what is now Bryant Park and that Thomas Martin moved from his Babylonian themes to depict the The Seventh Plague of Egypt in 1823 . I'm unaware of an archaeologically-based Egyptianizing recreated setting for a European painting earlier than this one. --Wetman 23:08, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
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message: Why the heck isn't the Washington Monument discussed or even mentioned in this article? It's a friggin' obelisk! JamesMcCloud129 11:50, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: So, do it. Carptrash 14:19, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
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message: There really should be a parallel page devoted to the Egyptian revival in Decorative arts.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Egyptomania (talk • contribs) 22:58, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Decoragtive arts

message: that this entry really belongs in the article.
:"* 1993: Tama-Re, Eatonton, Georgia, United States. Demolished 2005."
and am inclined to remove it if no one presents a good argument for retaining it. Carptrash (talk) 00:45, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  I don't think