Art Flashcards
Ch 3
3500 bce flourishing society with art paintings tombs
Pre-Dynastic Period
a rectangular or brick or stone structure with sloping sides with sloping sides erected over an underground burial chamber
Mastabas of egyptian history
IMhotep was a master builderfor king Djoser. of the third dynasty. it is the first recorded name in hostory of an artist
Imhotep and djoser
The firts of three great periods egypt periods called the old, middle and new
Old Kingdom
The egyptians constructed the 3 major pyramids at gizeh in the course of 75 years to serve as the tombs if the 4th dynasty kings
Gizeh
tomb of Khufu
The great pyramid
seated statue one of a small # of basic formulaic types old kingdom sculptors employed
Menkaure
2150 bce the egytptians challenged the power of the weak kings of the 6th dynasty and for more than a century the land was in a state of civil unrest and near anarchy. But in 2040 bce the king of upper egypt Mentuhotep 11 managed to unite egypt again under a single ruler establishing the middle kingdom
Middle kingdom
rock cut tombs
chaacteristic burials of the middle kingdom tomb. Largely replaced the mastaba
followed middle kingdom and was the most grandiose with egypt a metropolis during this time kings became know as pharos
New kingdom
the most distinctive of the royal mortuary temples errected for female pharoh hatshepsut
Deir el bahri
Theoptosis - ruled by god Permanence Horus - god of the Living Osiris - god of the underworld Amen (Amun) Re - the god of the Sun Aton - Sun disk, universal god of Amarna period
unchanging order of things
palette of king narmer signifiying the unification of Egypt
Palette
First type of pyramid
step pyramid
First stone pyramid
step pyramid at saqqara
mastaba was was constructed with another mastaba on top of each other etc making a pyramid
step pyramid construction
using nature as colums
Lotus colums
3 pyramids
Graet pyramids
marks the burial for khufu one of the 3 great pyramids also was first pyramid with hidden chambers to hide riches
Pyramid of Khufu
where the 3 great pyramids are and the sphinx
Khafre pyramid complex
is sort of a composite creature lion human head khafre is the head
Sphinx
the panel is of a scribe who generally came out of the royal family who could write, most egyptians could not write. formulaic approach with a grid pattern to follow
panel of hesire
formulaic art relief there shows they movement for the first time
Tomb of Ti
individualized face
seated scribe
first woman pharo in egypt tomb
hetscheptsut mortuary
temple of ramses the 2nd carved out of the sandstone.
abu simbel
was moved 700 feet so it woukd be flooded
temple of ramses
married to akhenaton
nefertiti
deplicted stone inlay with arkhenaton, nefertiti his children and the sun god ignored old kingdom art as it showed the pharo as living
akhenaton family
