As a student, Alberto Giacometti lectured his peers on the virtues of Egyptian art. By his early 20s he was studying it in the Louvre, tracing its sensibility through his own practice. This summer, that inquiry finds its most literal expression.

Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur places 17 of his sculptures inside and around a temple commissioned by Caesar Augustus in 10 BCE, dismantled into 642 sandstone blocks, shipped across the Atlantic, and awarded to the Met by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967.