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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

smarthistory

KHAN ACADEMY

You Tube Playlist

useful notes website

AP Art History images/flashcards

Image Folder

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

© 2019 by Gillian Bailey

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