egypt

1. Ancient Egyptian Art

2. Ancient Egypt

3. 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)

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

5. Akkadian, Victory Stele of Naram Sin,
2254-2218 BCE, pink sandstone, 6’7” high.
Source
Source
Egyptian, Palette of Narmer (back), c. 3000-
2920 BCE, Slate, 2’1’’.

6. 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)

7. 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

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

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

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

11. Some of the regalia
used to identify royalty.
General Concept:
conventions in art.
Source, p. 33

12. Commonly used poses and gestures in ancient Egyptian art.
Source, p. 37

13. 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

14. Egyptian Sculptural Relief
Source: Stokstad, Art History, 4th ed., p 65

15. 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 Egypt
c.2450-2359 BCE, painted limestone
4ft high

16. 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

17. Imhotep, stepped pyramid of Djoser, Saqqara, Egypt
c. 2630-2611 BCE.

18. Mastaba to Pyramid

19. General Concepts: art
as a reflection of a
culture’s central belief
systems and social
hierarchies
Great Pyramids, Gizeh Egypt, Fourth Dynasty.

20. Layout of the Gizeh plateau.
Source

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

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

23. Innermost coffin of Tutankhamen, from his tomb at Thebes, Egypt
Post-Amarna Period, c. 1323 BCE.
6’1” long, gold with inlay [Egyptian Museum, Cairo].

24. Innermost coffin of Tutankhamen, from his tomb at Thebes, Egypt
New Kingdom, c. 1323 BCE.
6’1” long, gold with inlay [Egyptian Museum, Cairo].

25. Video: How to Make a Mummy.
http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-egypt/videos#how-to-make-a-mummy

26. 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].

27. General Concept: idealism versus naturalism
Seated Scribe, from Saqqara, Egypt
Fourth Dynasty, c. 2500 BCE,
1’9” high, painted limestone.
Khafre Enthroned, from Gizeh, Egypt
Fourth Dynasty, c. 2520-2494 BCE
5’6” high.

28. Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el-Bahri,
Egypt, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1473-1458 BCE.
General Concepts: representations of power and authority /
relationship between art and architecture / representations of women in art

29. 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. 1473-1458
Red granite, 8’ 6” high.
[MET Museum, NY; reconstructed].

30. Façade of the temple of Ramses II, Abu Simbel, Egypt, New Kingdom, c. 1290-1224 BCE,
Colossi= 65’ high, sandstone.
General Concepts: representations of power and authority / relationship
between art and architecture

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

32. General Concepts: Change
in conventions / the human
body in art
Akhenaton from the temple of Aton, Karnak, Egypt, Sandstone, 13’ high
Amarna Period, ca. 1353-1335.

33. 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