Dimitri Laboury has been invited by the College of France on the recommendation of Professor Laurent Coulon.
Presentation
Almost a century ago, in 1931, Jean Capart published a now-famous book in which he compiled a series of lectures he had given in various parts of the United States in the mid-1900s 1920s, under the title "Propos sur l'art égyptien". In these lectures, the father of Belgian Egyptology presented an introduction to Egyptian art, with the aim of enabling us to recognize it not as a mere collection of ancient objects, but rather as the coherent expression of an art form in its own right, with its own codes and specificities, the understanding of which leads to a better appreciation of this production that was clearly essential to Pharaonic civilization. The proposed cycle of four lessons is a continuation of Capart's work, focusing more specifically on the authors and actors of Egyptian art and their place in the society of the pharaohs.