The Temple of Dendur: Understanding the Artwork

This paper shall address the Temple of Dendur, that was given to the United States by Egypt in 1965, awarded to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1967, and installed in The Sackler Wing in 1978, as a work of art, that was executed for a single purpose – that of drawing a visitor into the rear prayer room – and that the building, is as effective in achieving this purpose for even a modern viewer, far removed from the …showed first 75 words of 869 total…

…showed last 75 words of 869 total…than two thousand years old, the form of this building and the execution of its many parts helps to create a coherent whole, which is as successful now as it was then. In addition, the fact that the visitors to the building no longer share the same religious connection with this building should indicate that the piece loses power, yet the execution of this building is so well achieved, that this is not the case.