Ancient Egypt Flashcards
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Ancient Egypt
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- advanced medicine and knowledge of anatomy
- artists were vry talented and capable of representational work
- obsessed wth afterlife
- connectedness to the nile
- post-lintel architecture still relevant
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People, Boats, and Animals
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(3,500-3,200BCE/Predynastic)
- wall painting of men boats and animals from the shrine of Hierkonpolis
- earliest known ancient Egyption mural painting, in part depicting afterworld
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Mastaba
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- Egyptian tomb
- above ground chambers
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Palette of Narmer
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(3,000-2920BCE/Predynastic Egyptian)
-Earliest Restored historical relief, showing unification of Upper and Lower Egypt
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Khafre from Gizeh
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(2,520-2,494 BCE/fourth Dynasty)
- depicts pharoh as divine enthroned ruler
- idealized body in eterna stillness appropriate to afterworld
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Stepped Pyramid of king Zozer
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(2,630-2,611 BCE/Old Kingdom/Third dynasty)
- resembles a series of stacked mastabas diminishing in size
- used as mortuary
- created by first known artist, Imhotep
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Pyramids of Gizeh
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(2,490-2,472 BCE, Menkaure)
(2,551-2528 BCE Khafre)
(2,551-2,528 BCE Khufu)
(Ancient Egyptian-Old Kingdom)
-each pyramid is a part of a vast funerary complex
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Portrait of Sensuret III
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(1,860 BCE/Middle kingdom)
-displays an unprecedented psychological realism during period of political instability
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Funerary Temple of Queen Hatsheput
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(1,473-1,458 BCE/New Kingdom)
- commissioned by feamle pharaoh
- structure incorperates ritualistic processional path leading from nile to inner cliff
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Akhenaton
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(1353-1335 BCE/New Kingdom)
- reflecting his leadership of hew monotheistic religion.
- this image may be an attempt to portray the pharoh as atton, the sexless sun disk
