Egypt Flashcards
What are the 8 egyptian cannons?
- The more important a person was the larger they were depicted (important person = larger in images.),
- Men are depicted with darker skin than women (Darker due to outdoor work),
- Faces, arms, legs, hands and the feet are shown in profile (seen from the side, usually right side.),
- Eyes (usually single eye) and chest are frontal,
- No mathematical perspective attempted,
- Little or no overlapping,
- Spaces are divided into horizontal and or registers (like comic strips),
- The left foot is forward or standing figures.
What was the first pyramid type? (def as well)
The first pyramid was called a mastaba., It was a four sided *the sides sloped/tapered upwards) brick or stone block, solid structure (does not peak at the top)
The dead person was buried underground beneath the mastaba.
Which king decided to change the pyramid? What was the name of the architect? define the pyramid?
King zoser (Djoser) had his architect imhotep (the first time the name of an artist has been recorded in history) design a new kind of tomb at saqqara. It was made by sticking successively smaller mastabas one on top of another like a ‘stairway to heaven’ and so, it is called a step pyramid.
What was the last pyramid type? (def as well)
Necropolis
Soon, architects smoothed out the stepped sides and created a true pyramid like the most famous ones at giza. These pyramids all have four triangular sides and a square base with one side facing north, it is called a true pyramid.
What were egyptian sculptures like?
Free standing sculpture: all free standing sculptures shared the following characteristics:
They were blocky and stiff.
In standing figures, the left leg was always forward.
Hands, were clenched.
They left negative space in between.
They were often painted to enhance realism.
The egyptian belief that the preservation of the body was not enough so they used sculptures to keep the person alive.
