Islamic Art in Cairo: From the 7th to the 18th Centuries

by Émile Prisse d'Avennes and Prisse D'Avennes

In 1827, a brilliant young French engineer and draftsman arrived in Alexandria at the start of a long and fruitful love affair with Egypt and its art, both ancient and contemporary. Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-79) spent a total of nineteen years in Egypt, traveling throughout the country to collect the stunning images that he later published in Paris in two collections, Atlas de l'histoire de l'art egyptien and L' Art arabe. It is the illustrations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 977416119X
• ISBN13: 9789774161193
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.4" x 9.3"