Pharaonic art – inexhaustible source of meditation and contemplation – brings the extraordinary message of a people who lived for millennia and which seems to us closer than any of our current sensitivity. Entirely stretched towards eternity, the artisan – sculptor or goldsmith – of the Pharaonic era does not seek art for the sake of art: he creates so that the deceased have the hope of winning a beyond of plenitude and of serenity. This evocation of beauty in Egypt, through an iconography that brings together 350 exceptional illustrations, shows the most perfect masterpieces of Pharaonic art.
