The painters who decorated Egyptian tombs and temples followed rigid guidelines for centuries—until a style revolution changed the rules. Not all tomb art was for the high born. A detail from the tomb ...
It’s the stuff of Saturday matinees at the local cinema. Think of movies like 1932’s “The Mummy”—Egyptian Deco, the Scroll of Thoth, ossified eyelids opening. Or that midcentury one-two punch of Jules ...