AP ART HISTORY
PHS - BAILEY
ANCIENT egypt
Gardner's art through the ages pages 54-81
Dates to Know
Old Kingdom: 2500 - 2150 BCE
Middle Kingdom: 2030 - 1640 BCE
New Kingdom: 1550 - 1178 BCE
Vocabulary
Hieroglyphics Mastaba
Sphinx Atlantids
Colonnades Engaged Column
Mortuary Temple Clerestory
Register Hypostyle Hall
Pylon Canon
Ka Hierarchal
Pyramid Necropolis
Axial Plan Papyrus
Sarcophagus Sunken Relief
concepts
FOCUSED ON ETERNITY, AFTERLIFE AND REBIRTH
Large scale funerary objects dominate.
Depicting and serving a god-like pharoah.
Strict stylistic formulas and idealized figures.
themes
Power
Funereal
Narrative
AP Art History images/flashcards
13. Palette of King Narmer. Predynastic Egypt. c. 3000–2920 B.C.E. Greywacke. (2 images)
15. Seated scribe. Saqqara, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2620–2500 B.C.E. Painted limestone.
17. Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx. Giza, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2550–2490 B.C.E. Cut limestone. (2 images)
18. King Menkaura and queen. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2490–2472 B.C.E. Greywacke.
20. Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall. Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th and 19th Dynasties. Temple: c. 1550 B.C.E.; hall: c. 1250 B.C.E. Cut sandstone and mud brick. (3 images)
21. Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut. Near Luxor, Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. c. 1473–1458 B.C.E. Sandstone, partially carved into a rock cliff, and red granite. (2 images)
22. Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters. New Kingdom (Amarna), 18th Dynasty. c. 1353–1335 B.C.E. Limestone.
23. Tutankhamun’s tomb, innermost coffin. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. c. 1323 B.C.E. Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones.
24. Last judgment of Hu-Nefer, from his tomb (page from the Book of the Dead). New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty. c. 1275 B.C.E. Painted papyrus scroll.
Additional Images:
Seated Ka Statue of Khafre
Temple of Ramses II
Statue of Akenaton