| ANCIENT ART COUNCIL | ||
| supporting Antiquities at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | ||
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| Spring 2017 Programs | ||
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| Florence Gould Theater | Legion of Honor | ||
| 100 - 34th Avenue | Lincoln Park | San Francisco | ||
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| Saturday, 11 February, 2:00 pm | ||
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| Dr. Lawrence Berman | ||
| Norma Jean Calderwood Senior Curator | ||
| of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art | ||
| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | ||
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| The Priest, the Prince, and the Pasha: | ||
| The Life and Afterlife of an Ancient Egyptian Sculpture | ||
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| One of the treasures of the Egyptian collection of | ||
| the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is a small head | ||
| of an old man, broken off from a statue, in a fine, | ||
| hard, dark gray-green stone called graywacke. | ||
| Known as the Boston Green Head after the color | ||
| of the stone and the place where it now resides, | ||
| this masterful portrait of a shaven-headed Egyptian priest | ||
| has a remarkable modern history reaching back to the | ||
| beginnings of Egyptian archeology. The successive stages | ||
| of that history and the colorful individuals involved | ||
| reflect the reception of Egyptian art in the modern era. | ||
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Book signing to follow lecture. Copies available in the Legion Bookstore. |
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