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Columns, Temple of Seti, Kurna, Thebes
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey French
Not on view
The ancient mortuary temple of Seti I, father of Rameses II, sits across the Nile from Karnak in Thebes. Girault captured a detail of a doorway and two columns from the ten along the temple’s facade. He seems less concerned with producing a detailed rendering of the papyrus-style columns than with capturing the dramatic play of light and shadow that articulates their forms.
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