Background
Freed was born on June 29, 1952 in Newark, United States; the daughter of Samuel David Freed and Gertrude (Houseman) Freed.
Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States
Wellesley College
New York City, New York, United States
New York University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Museum of Fine Arts
(More than 3000 years ago Ramses II, the son of Seti I in ...)
More than 3000 years ago Ramses II, the son of Seti I in the 19th dynasty of ancient Egypt, reigned as the lord of the land for 67 years. He promoted artistic endeavor and nudged architectural frontiers as he created a plethora of temples and monuments along the Nile. He had recorded in incised stone the culture of the generations he ruled. He conserved and preserved for the future the records of ancient Egypt, much as the 87-year-old Denver Museum of Natural History conserves and preserves information for our future.
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1987
(Ramses the Great Presented by the Dallas Museum of Natura...)
Ramses the Great Presented by the Dallas Museum of Natural History and the Egyptian Antiquities Organization, March 5 to August 27, 1989 Exhibition. A big art book with many beautiful illustrations and photographs of Ancient Egyptian Art and Artifacts from an exhibition at the Dallas Museum in 1989. In color on glossy paper.
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1989
(A visual tour of this magnificent and baffling civilizati...)
A visual tour of this magnificent and baffling civilization focuses on more than 250 works of sculpture, architecture, ceramics, jewelry, clothing, tools, and furniture, revealing what these objects can tell us about the art, culture, politics, and religious beliefs of the ancient Egyptians.
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1999
(The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has one of the worlds pr...)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has one of the worlds premier collections of Old Kingdom art, thanks to George Reisners celebrated expeditions during the first decades of the last century. Although individual objects from the collection have appeared in numerous publications as quintessential examples of their time, never before have the best of them been presented in a single volume. Nor have many of the fascinating archival photographs of the excavations been published as they are here.
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2002
(In 1915, a team of American archaeologists in Bersha, Egy...)
In 1915, a team of American archaeologists in Bersha, Egypt, blasted through solid rock to reach a tomb later to be designated as "10A." Inside this tomb they found a mummy, an exquisitely-painted coffin and arguably the largest assemblage of burial artifacts ever discovered from the Middle Kingdom. Because of the delicate power balance between the king and local bureaucrats, the Middle Kingdom (the least known of the three ancient Egyptian kingdoms) was a time of unprecedented splendor, as regional potentates were lavished with rewards and buried in a style normally reserved for royalty. Tomb 10A was prepared for one such potentate, Governor Djehutynakht, and its treasures--which survived World War I, a ship's fire and nearly a century of basement storage--include jewelry, walking sticks, a phenomenally large collection of model boats, architectural miniatures and even the severed (but nicely painted) head of Djehutynakht himself. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Secrets of Tomb 10A tells the story and introduces the full breadth and meaning of these treasures for the first time. With more than 160 illustrations, it discusses the history, political intrigue and development of fine works of art for both royalty and commoners at a time characterized by widespread prosperity and intense artistic flourishing.
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2009
Freed was born on June 29, 1952 in Newark, United States; the daughter of Samuel David Freed and Gertrude (Houseman) Freed.
Freed received a Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College. She was given a Doctor of Philosophy in Near Eastern art and archeology from New York University.
Freed began her career as an exhibition assistant of egyptian art at Museum of Fine Arts in 1978 and held it for four years. In 1983, she became a curator of Egyptian exhibition at the gallery of the University of Memphis. A year later Rita became a founding director at the same gallery.
Since 1989 she has been the curator of the department of ancient Egyptian, Nubian and Near Eastern Art at Museum of Fine Arts. Also Freed held the position of an adjunct professor in the art department at Wellesley College, since 1991.
In addition, she was a research assistant at Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(A visual tour of this magnificent and baffling civilizati...)
1999(The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has one of the worlds pr...)
2002(Ramses the Great Presented by the Dallas Museum of Natura...)
1989(More than 3000 years ago Ramses II, the son of Seti I in ...)
1987(In 1915, a team of American archaeologists in Bersha, Egy...)
2009Freed is a member of Amarna Research Foundation, American Research Center in Egypt, Society for Study Egyptian Antiquities, Egypt Exploration Society, Egyptological Seminar, International Association of Egyptologists, Committee on International Egyptology and Phi Beta Kappa.
Rita Freed is married to Peter Brown.