Tag: Ibrahim El Dessouki
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Ibrahim El Dessouki’s The Seventh Day, with Footnotes, #51
El Dessouki’s triptych of seven majestic, goddess-like women are incarnations of the Egyptian goddess of motherhood, Hathor, in her human, as opposed to bovine form. The painting derives its name from Egyptian tradition, inherited from ancient times, ‘El Sebou’ or ‘The Seventh Day’. The ritual is a seven-day celebration upon the birth of a child;…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Ibrahim El Dessouki’s Doors and False Doors 5,, with Footnotes, #50
“False doors”, also known as “Ka doors”, as they allowed the Ka (an element of the “soul”) to pass through them, were common in the mortuary temples and tombs of ancient Egypt from around the Third Dynasty and temples of the New Kingdom. The false door was thought to be a threshold between the world…
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