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EGYPTIAN ART

Janin AlfonsoAP Art HistoryPer.5

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Great Pyramids Giza, Egypt c. 2500 B.C.E.

Purpose: Giant monuments to dead pharaohs

Each pyramid had enjoining mortuary temple

Pharaoh buried within pyramid, unlike stepped pyramid

Material: Huge pile of limestone, minimal interior for deceased

Each side oriented toward a point on compass

Four corners oriented to the compass

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Khafre Egyptian Museum, Cairo c. 2500 B.C.E.

Idealized form Falcon god Horus behind

Khafre, protecting him; Khafre an incarnation of Horus; pharaoh shown to be divine

Interlocking lotus and papyrus, the symbol of a united Egypt, at base

Figure not cut away from stone, no negative space between arms of stomach

Strictly follows traditional Egyptian proportions

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Great Sphinx Giza, Egypt c. 2500 B.C.E.

Generalized features, although some say it may be portrait of Khafre Body of lion, head of pharaoh/god Sphinx seems to protect pyramids behind it Originally brightly painted to stand out in desert Cats loyal animals in ancient Egypt, saved grain supply form mice Head of Sphinx damaged in Middle Ages Beard in British Museum

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Seated ScribeLouvre, Paris C.2400 B.C.E.

PorpuseL for a tomb at Saqqara as a provision for kha

Not a pharaoh, wooden sculpture with sagging chest and realistic rather than idealistic features

Color still intact Lifelike but not portrait.

Conventional image of a scribe Attentive expression,

contrasts with pharaoh

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Ti Watching Hippo Hunt Tomb of Ti, Saqqara, Egypt C. 2400

BCE Painted relief in mastaba of

Ti, government official Ti’s boat glides through giant

papyri which flower into fan of birds

Servants hunts as tribute to deceased Ti and to destroy animals considered pests that damaged crops

Ti stand on boat (rather than in) and is double anyone’s size

Hierarchy scale

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Senusret IIIEgyptian Museum, Cairoc.1860 B.C.E.

• Moody look in mouth and eyes, looks depressed

• Figures reflect the period of civil unrest

• Introspective• Firm chin• Carefully delineated

lines and folds of flesh between the brows and at the corners of nose and mouth

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Rock Cut Tombs of Beni HasanEgypt c. 1950-1900 B.C.E.

Cliff walls hollowed out to reveal small burial chambers

Reserve columns cut away from the interior chamber to create the look of conventional columns

Columns are not round but fluted

Façade shows shallow columned porch

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Mortuary Temple of HatshepsutDeir el-Bahri, Egypt C. 1473-1458

3 colonnaded terraces and 2 ramps

Visually coordinated with natural setting; long horizontals and verticals of terraces and colonnades repeat pattern of cliffs behind

Terraces originally planted as gardens with exotic trees

First time the achievements of a woman are celebrated in art history; body elsewhere

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Queen HatshepsutMetropolitance Museum of Art, New York c. 1473-1458

Queen represented in male costume of pharaoh, yet slender proportions and slight breasts indicated femininity

Often portrayed as sphinx

Headdress, false beard, and traces of cobra on crown show her affinity with male pharaoh role

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Temple of Ramases II Abu Simbel, Egypt

1290-1224 B.C.E.

Rock-cut tomb, resembles pylon.

Material: 4 large situ statues of Ramses on façade

Façade at one point painted

Royal family between Ramses’ legs

Sun enter center of tomb on October 21, Ramses’ birthday

Interior Ramses sculptures carved in reserve

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Nefertiti Egyptian Museum, Berlin 1353-1335 B.C.E.

Long, elegant neck

Realistic face; soft, delicate features typical of New Kingdom

Limestone Wife of Akhenaton Amarna style

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King Tutankhamen Egyptian Museum, Cairo

c. 1323 B.C.E. Made with gold,

enamel, semiprecious stones

Famous tomb discovered by Howard Carter in 1922

Mummified body of King Tut burried with 143 objects on head, neck, abdomen, and limbs; gold mask over head

Gold coffin 6’7” Smooth features of

boy-king

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Judgment before Osiris British Museum, London

c. 1290-1280 B.C.E.

Painted on papyrus Illustration from Book of Dead, an Egyptian book of spells and charms God of embalming, Anubis, has jackal’s head. He leads deceased to a hall where his

soul is weighed against a feather. If sins outweigh feather he will be condemned. Hippo/lion figure betweeb scales will eat heart of evil soul God Thoth has head of bird; he is the stenographer writing down these events in the

hieroglyphics he invented Osiris, god of underworld, appears enthroned on right to subject the deceased to a

day of judgment.