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Gay RobinsProfessor Emerita

Education

  • D.Phil., University of Oxford, 1981

Research Interests

Ancient Egyptian art; composition, style and proportion; issues of gender and sexuality.

Selected Publications

The Art of Ancient Egypt (London and Cambridge: British Museum Press and Harvard University Press, 1997)

Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994)

Women in Ancient Egypt (London and Cambridge: British Museum Press and Harvard University Press, 1993)

Egyptian Painting and Relief (London: Shire Publications, 1986)

 

Articles on royal women of the 18th dynasty; Egyptian mathematics; artists' squared grids; proportions of the human figure in Egyptian art and in life; gender issues in Egyptian art

Selected Seminars

Images of Women in Ancient Egypt; Controlling the Cosmos: Kingship in Ancient Egypt; Ancient Egyptian Art and Hieroglyphs.