Osiris aux sources du Nil. Epigraphie led by Scipio Africanus

led by Scipio Africanus

the graphic delicacy of an artist haunted by the twilight melancholy of fin-de-siècle symbolism

Proceedings of a Symposium organized by the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Getty Conservation Institute

enriched with abundant and original iconography

Dans L'harmonie des couleurs pour l'aquarelle

Osiris aux sources du Nil. Epigraphie led by Scipio AfricanusThe priests of Egypt very early sought to explain the mystery of creation; in the ancient country where everything or almost everything depends on water and its sovereign vector the Nile the explanatory stories linked it to Osiris. The place of this cosmic fusion imposed itself naturally; it could only be the place where the river, calmed, takes on its definitive appearance, the First Cataract with its islands of Philae and Biggeh. Osiris is