Presentation of the Grimaldi Forum's exhibition "Gold
of the Pharaohs. 2500 years of Goldsmithing
in ancient Egypt" by Christiane Ziegler, Exhibition Curator.
Monday 4 June, at 6.30 pm, Médiathèque de Monaco (Bibliothèque Louis Notari)
For its major 2018 summer exhibition, the Grimaldi Forum Monaco is
returning to the Egyptian theme that it addressed successfully in 2008 with the
"Queens of Egypt" exhibition.
The GOLD OF THE PHARAOHS exhibition will bring together more
than 150 masterpieces from Cairo Museum and will present a series of
prestigious collections that were found in the royal and princely tombs of
Pharaonic Egypt. Ten years on, the
Grimaldi Forum is once again drawing upon the expertise of Christiane Ziegler, Exhibition
Curator, Honorary Director of the Egyptian Antiquities Department of the Louvre
Museum, Publication Director of the Archaeological Mission of the Louvre Museum
in Saqqara (Egypt) and President of the Archaeology Centre, Memphite. In addition to presenting sumptuous collections
(jewellery, vases, bracelets, pendants, gold belts, gold disc mirrors,
necklaces, sarcophagi, funeral masks and gold-plated furniture), illustrated
with documents explaining how they were discovered, the exhibition also
questions the status of these works, which are one of the oldest and most
universal forms of artistic expression.