Codice albumGBB-F-008414

Codice inventarioGBB-F-008414-0000

The French artist, writer, diplomat, author and archaeologist DOMINIQUE VIVANT Baron DENON (1747-1825). Print PLANISPHERE: TAKEN FROM THE TEMPLE OF TENTYRA, coloured engraving by J. Chapman after Vivant Denon with the Astrological Egyptian zodiac, London, XIX Century. He was appointed as the first Director of the Louvre museum by Napoleon I after the Egyptian campaign of 17981801. His two-volume Voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte ("Journey in Lower and Upper Egypt"), 1802, was the foundation of modern Egyptology

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