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{{Short description|Architectural style}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox art movement | name = Egyptian Revival architecture |image = {{photomontage |photo1a= Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly - Shepherd, Metropolitan Improvements (1828), p295 (edited).jpg |photo2a= Neues Museum Aegyptischer Hof.jpg |photo3a= 2043-05370 De Grote Tempel van de vrijmetselaarsloge Les Amis Philanthropes.jpg |photo4a= Egyptian Theatre on Main St, Delta, Colorado..JPG |size = 250 |color_border = #AAAAAA |color = #F9F9F9 }} | caption = A: The [[Egyptian Hall]] in London (1812 destroyed in 1905); B: 1862 lithograph of the Aegyptischer Hof (English: Egyptian court), from the [[Neues Museum]], Berlin (early of mid-19th century); C: Interior of the Temple maçonnique des Amis philanthropes in [[Brussels]], [[Belgium]] (1877-1879); D: [[Egyptian Theatre (Delta, Colorado)|Egyptian Theatre]], [[Colorado]], [[United States|U.S.]] (1928) | yearsactive = Late 18th–present |countries = [[Western world]] }} '''Egyptian Revival''' is an [[architectural style]] that uses the motifs and imagery of [[ancient Egypt]]. It is attributed generally to the public awareness of ancient Egyptian monuments generated by [[Napoleon]]'s [[French campaign in Egypt and Syria|invasion of Egypt]] in 1798, and [[Admiral Nelson]]'s defeat of the [[French Navy]] at the [[Battle of the Nile]] later that year. Napoleon took a scientific expedition with him to Egypt. Publication of the expedition's work, the ''[[Description de l'Égypte]]'', began in 1809 and was published as a series through 1826. The size and monumentality of the façades discovered during his adventure cemented the hold of Egyptian aesthetics on the Parisian elite. However, works of art and architecture (such as funerary monuments) in the Egyptian style had been made or built occasionally on the European continent since the time of the [[Renaissance]].
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