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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Jan. 5, 1961
Museum Displays Egyptian Statues
By Martha Moser
A display of ancient Egyptian statues — some of them 35 centuries old — is part of the Fleischmann collection now on display at the KU Museum of Art.
Also on display as part of the collection are modern paintings, prints and drawings.
Students in an ancient art history class are tracing the origins of each of the objects on display in the exhibition and identifying the gods that the figures represent. From this research, Mr. and Mrs. Russell D'Anna, Lawrence seniors and fine arts majors, will compile a catalog of the exhibition. This catalog will be sent to art museums all over the world.
OBSERVERS of the Egyptian collection may have noticed the striking similarity of pose and style of sculpture of the statues.
"The style of the sculpture is so the appendages won't get broken off," D'Anna said. "The Egyptians believed that the body had to be preserved in order for the soul to remain immortal."
Statues represented the body, he said, so many replicas of a dead person were made to insure that at least one would last.
The statues date from 1580 to 1100 B.C.
Mrs. D'Anna said that the Egyptians didn't change the style of their art or the poses for more than 6000 years. A slight change became apparent in the third century B.C. when the Greeks and Romans began to enter Egypt.
"THE FIRST drastic change came when Mohammed came in and took over the government," Mrs. D'Anna said. "The Egyptian art was based on religion and government, essentially the same thing."
Pharaohs were naturally elevated of gods, she said. Imhotep, the god of learning, was a wise man elevated to a god 2500 years after his death.
Imhotep can be recognized in the Fleischmann collection by his bare head, crossed arms and sitting position.
In the exhibition there is also Isis, the sitting figure of a woman holding a baby, her son Horus. Horus is recognizable in other statues by his curl of hair and the finger in his mouth. Horus is later represented as the god of the rising sun, the hawk-headed deity.
"Since the style of Egyptian art was prototyped," Mr. D'Anna explained, "the childhood trait of sucking a finger distinguished Horus as a child."
AN INTERESTING aspect of Egyptian religion and art is the
University Chorus Concert Sunday
"The Peaceable Kingdom," by Randall Thompson, will be performed by the 300-voice University Chorus in a concert at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch Auditorium.
This selection is from the Biblical book of the profit Isaiah. The chorus will be directed by Clayton Krehbiel, associate professor of choral music.
International Club to Meet
The Algerian situation will be the panel topic at International Club at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
many animal gods the ancient Egyptians worshipped.
The origin of worshipping animal gods was uncertain. D'Anna said, "The animal gods usually represented wild animals, and men probably raised them to gods because they feared or admired them."
"The Egyptians admired the dignity, grace and aloofness of the cat," Mrs. D'Anna said.
The cats in the Fleischmann exhibition were the embodiment of Bastet, goddess of the town Bast Originally they wore gold earrings
"The cats are beautiful." D'Anna said. "They could almost be representative of modern art with their style and form."
Other animal gods in the collection are Apis the bull, the renewer of life; and Uraeus the hooded cobra, the protector of Egypt and the symbol of royalty and power.
Marian Jersild To Give Recital
Around the Campus
Marian Jersild, assistant professor of piano, will present selections from Bach, Brahms, Schubert and Frokofiev at a faculty recital at 8 p.m. Monday in Swarthout Hall.
Prof. Jersild has appeared in New York's Town Hall and in Chicago recitals.
In 1958, she won a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Berlin Academy of Music.
Gorton Talks Today At NY Conference
Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts is a principal speaker today at the one-day meeting in New York City of the National Music Council.
His subject will be "The Challenge to Music in Education."
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The requirement for students who entered the College in the fall of 1959 is proficiency or 16 hours of language study.
The examination places are: Latin, 213 Fraser; German, 210 Fraser; French 206 Fraser, and Spanish, 205 Fraser.
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