Impressions of Egypt : Ingrid Rowland speech

Collection title

Collection Bibliotheca Alexandrina

ID

BIB00081

Source

Bibliotheca Alexandrina (EG)

First broadcast date

10/01/2005

Production year

2005

Abstract

Professor Ingrid Rowland, university of Notre Dame school of architecture, Italy, gave a speech on how Egypt was perceived by Europeans in seventeenth century Rome. She talked about the ancient Rome in the seventeenth century, the Egyptian lions at the altur of heaven, Madama Lucrezia, father Athanasius Kircher (1602- 1680) in his museum, Athanasius Kircher and his guardian angel cosmiel "Iter exstaticum" 1660.

Type

video

Production companies

• Bibliotheca Alexandrina - Own production

Broadcaster

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Audiovisual form

Conference

Personalities

• Rowland Ingrid

Primary theme

Antiquity

Secondary themes

• Art, Culture and Knowledge

Credits / Cast

• Rowland Ingrid - Speaker

Period of events

• 2005

Map locations

• Egypt - Lower Egypt - Alexandria

Original language

English

Media running time

30m12