Cleveland Museum of Art
Karnak, Les Pylônes d'Horus
Henri Béchard
- Date
- 1860s
- Medium
- Albumen print from wet collodion negative
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This desolate view of the remnants of the monumental gateway flanked by figures of the god Horus, usually depicted as a falcon-headed man, emphasizes the sense of discovery that must have been felt by tourists visiting Egypt in the 1860s. A tiny figure at the lower right testifies to the monumental scale of the ruins. Karnak is the second most visited tourist site in Egypt after the pyramids of Giza.
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