2nd Six Weeks Test

Question 1

Answer 1

Ancient Egypt

Lower: Gizeh & Saqqara

Upper: Edfu

Question 2

Chronology

Answer 2

Old Kingdom: 2670-2150 BCE

Middle Kingdom: 2150- 1800 BCE

New Kingdom: 1550-1070 BCE

Armana Period 1370-1350 BCE

Question 3

The Rosetta Stone

Answer 3

Discovered by Napoleon in 1799

3 languages:

1. ) Formal Egyptian Heiropglyphic
2. ) Demotc
3. ) Classical Greek

Question 4

The Palette of King Narmer

Answer 4

Oldest Work of Art the Documents Historic Event

Unification of Upper and Lower

Cannon- sets up human figure depiction

Utilitarian- eye makeup

Heiarchial Scale

Question 5

Stepped Pyramid of King Zoser

Answer 5

Imhotep- First Recorded Artist

Knowledge of civilization rest soley in tombs

Mastaba

Question 6

Columns

Answer 6

Always engaged

Fluted columns- harmony and elegance

Papyrus columns- lower egypt

Question 7

The Sphinx

Answer 7

Gaurdian of tomb

image of Khafre

Largest Sculpture

Question 8

Khafre

Answer 8

Burried in middle tomb

Demonstrates the artist’s cubc veiw of the human figure

Served as a home for Ka

Shows the falcon of Horus

Idealized features representing majesty

Question 9

Seated Scribe

Answer 9

Individualized torso

lower heiarchy

eyes wide and alert

Question 10

Ka-Aper

Answer 10

Old Kingdom sculpture that exemplifies increased realism

Question 11

Ti watching a hippo hunt

Answer 11

Metaphor for truimph over evil forces

imprtance in society

Question 12

Queen Hatshepsut

Answer 12

first great female monarch recorded

architecture within natural setting

horizontal rhythm

Question 13

Hatshepsut and offering jars

Answer 13

Anatomically male

Question 14

Temple of Amen-Re

Answer 14

Example of hypostyle hall

clerestory

Question 15

Temple of Horus

Answer 15

Pylon Temple

Question 16

Fowling Scenes

Answer 16

Fresco Secco

Question 17

Akenaton

Answer 17

Artistic recolution in which the figures became elongated and androgynous

moved captital to thebes

Question 18

Stylistic Changes during the Amarna Period

Answer 18

Effeminate body with curving contours

long full-lipped face, heavy eye lids and dreamy expression

The body is ddly misshapen with weak arms, narrow waist, protruding belly, wide hips, and fatty thigh

Question 19

Bust of Nefertiti

Answer 19

The Beautiful one is here

At Historians compared this to a flower

features adjusted to the new standard of spiritual beauty

Question 20

Queen Tyre

Answer 20

Depiction of Age

not of royal birth

Question 21

Death Mask of Tutankhamen

Answer 21

Discovered in 1922

Howard Carter

Valley of the Kings

Pharoh for 10 years

Tomb found in tact

Question 22

Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer

Answer 22

demonstrates a return to the Old Kingdom funerary Illustrations

Question 23

Late period in egyptian art

Answer 23

Demonstrates a return to the conservative (Old Kingdom)

Conservatism was Egypts character trait

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