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Ancient Egyptian Art

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Ancient Egypt

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Egypt under the Pharoahs

Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods (ca. 3500-2575 BCE)

Old Kingdom (ca. 2575-2134 BCE) the “age of pyramids”

Middle Kingdom (ca. 2040-1640 BCE)

New Kingdom (ca. 1550-1070)

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Egyptian, Palette of Narmer (back), c. 3000-2920 BCE, Slate, 2’1’’. Source

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Akkadian, Victory Stele of Naram Sin, 2254-2218 BCE, pink sandstone, 6’7” high.

SourceSource

Egyptian, Palette of Narmer (back), c. 3000-2920 BCE, Slate, 2’1’’.

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Egyptian, Predynastic Period Palette of Narmer (back), c. 3000-2920 BCE, Slate, 2’1’’.

Key Terms:

composite view- a convention of representation in which part of a figure is shown in profile and another part of the same figure is shown frontally

hieratic scale- where size indicates relative importance

General concepts: -Art as used to express power and authority / relationship between art and politics / idealization versus naturalism / art and social hierarchies

Source

Serekh (area where the royal name is inscribed)

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Palette of Narmer (front), c. 3000-2920 BCE, Slate, 2’1’’.

Key term:

registers- horizontal bands conventionally used to nearly order pictorial elements (the preferred mode for narrative art in Mesopotamia)

Source

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Palette of Narmer (front), c. 3000-2920 BCE, Slate, 2’1’’Detail, depression for grinding cosmetics.

Source

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Palette of Narmer (front), detail, c. 3000-2920 BCE, Slate, 2’1’’.

Source

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Palette of Narmer (front), detail of bottom register, c. 3000-2920 BCE, Slate, 2’1’’.

Source

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Some of the regalia used to identify royalty.

General Concept: conventions in art.

Source, p. 33

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Commonly used poses and gestures in ancient Egyptian art.

Source, p. 37

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Source

Key terms:

idealization-the depiction of a human or a figure in a way considered to be most ideal according to the values or conventions of a certain culture

canon of proportions-system of proportions using a grid to create a standard, ideal system for depicting the human figure (used in ancient Egyptian Art through the Middle Kingdom)

General Concepts: conventions in art

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Source: Stokstad, Art History, 4th ed., p 65

Egyptian Sculptural Relief

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Art and the Afterlife

Relevant Key Terms:-canon of proportions

(idealization)-composite view

-hieratic scale

Ti watching a hippopotamus hunt, from the mastaba of Ti, Saqqara Egyptc.2450-2359 BCE, painted limestone

4ft high

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Mastaba tomb, Saqqara.

Key Term:

mastaba: the standard tomb type in early Egypt- characterized by a rectangular stone or brick structure with sloping sides and a flat top over an underground burial chamber.

Source

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Imhotep, stepped pyramid of Djoser, Saqqara, Egyptc. 2630-2611 BCE.

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Mastaba to Pyramid

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General Concepts: art as a reflection of a

culture’s central belief systems and social

hierarchies

Great Pyramids, Gizeh Egypt, Fourth Dynasty.

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Layout of the Gizeh plateau.Source

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Pyramid of Khafre, Gizeh, Egypt, c. 2520-2494 BCE.

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Queen Nefertiti Making and Offering to Isis, wall painting in the tomb of NefertitiNineteenth Dynasty, c. 1290-1224 BCE .

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Innermost coffin of Tutankhamen, from his tomb at Thebes, EgyptPost-Amarna Period, c. 1323 BCE.

6’1” long, gold with inlay [Egyptian Museum, Cairo].

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Innermost coffin of Tutankhamen, from his tomb at Thebes, EgyptNew Kingdom, c. 1323 BCE.

6’1” long, gold with inlay [Egyptian Museum, Cairo].

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Video: How to Make a Mummy.

http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-egypt/videos#how-to-make-a-mummy

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General concepts: idealization versus naturalism / art and social hierarchies / conventions in art

Menkaure and his wife, from Gizeh, Egypt, Fourth Dynasty, 2490-2472 BCE.4’6” high [MFA, Boston].

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Seated Scribe, from Saqqara, EgyptFourth Dynasty, c. 2500 BCE,1’9” high, painted limestone.

Khafre Enthroned, from Gizeh, EgyptFourth Dynasty, c. 2520-2494 BCE

5’6” high.

General Concept: idealism versus naturalism

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General Concepts: representations of power and authority / relationship between art and architecture / representations of women in art

Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el-Bahri, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1473-1458 BCE.

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General Concepts: representations of power and authority / relationship

between architecture and artworks / representations of women in art /

conventions in art

Hatshepsut with offering jars, from the upper court of her mortuary temple, Deir el-Bahri, Egypt,

18th Dynasty, ca. 1473-1458Red granite, 8’ 6” high.

[MET Museum, NY; reconstructed].

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General Concepts: representations of power and authority / relationship between art and architecture

Façade of the temple of Ramses II, Abu Simbel, Egypt, New Kingdom, c. 1290-1224 BCE,Colossi= 65’ high, sandstone.

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Interior of the temple of Ramses II, Abu Simbel, Egypt, New Kingdom, c. 1290-1224 BCEPillar statues= 32 ft high, sandstone

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General Concepts: Change in conventions / the human

body in art

Akhenaton from the temple of Aton, Karnak, Egypt, Sandstone, 13’ highAmarna Period, ca. 1353-1335.

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General Concepts:

-conventions in art

-the human body in art

-Idealization versus naturalism

-art and architecture as a display of power and authority

-the relationship between art and politics

-systems of art and the status of the artist

-art and architecture as a reflection of a culture’s central belief systems and social hierarchies

-the relationship between art and architecture