Walter Frederick Roofe Tyndale
1943
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
The Great Temple of Abu Simbel is a 1943 by Walter Frederick Roofe Tyndale, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
The painting shows a massive temple with figures standing in front of it. It's a drawing of The Great Temple of Abu Simbel. The artist used size contrast to show how big the temple is. The temple has relief portraits of Ramses the Great and his queen Nefertari. The artist was inspired by trips to Egypt. To learn more about the artist's work, check out the museum where this is kept, the museum is The Cleveland Museum of Art.
The British artist Walter Frederick Roofe Tyndale made repeated trips to Egypt beginning in the late 19th century. While there, he was inspired by the Abu Simbel temples, seen in this drawing, which feature relief portraits of Ramses the Great and his queen Nefertari. Here, Tyndale contrasted the massive temple with figures standing before it to give a sense of its epic scale.
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Walter Frederick Roope Tyndale (1855–1943) was a British watercolourist of landscapes, architecture and street scenes, book illustrator and travel writer.
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