Ancient Egyptian Art

Is divided into four periods, which are….

• pre-dynastic

• old kingdom

• middle kingdom

• new kingdom

initially Egypt was divided in half due to…

the nile

the nile was a pivotal…

part of egyptian society

what type of society was egypt?

a polytheistic one

the ancient Egyptian culture was shaped like a…

pyramid

what was the order of hierarchy

• peasants, slaves

• merchants

• religious

• nobles

• pharaoh

with the nile you got the ____ plant as well as ___ which was used to cover mummies

“papyrus” plant and “flax”

what did the ancient greeks call egypt?

the cradle of science

they developed what writing system

the hieroglyphics writing system

what profession was very important in its society

priests

the _____ was akin to your soul or spirit and was important in egyptian culture

the Ka

who were the three important gods

• Horus

• Osiris

• Isis

from the earliest periods of predynastic Egypt, there is evidence of ____ that extended as far east as the indus valley

trade connections

what was the name of the divine order that they believed in and what was the name of the chaos in the world

ma’at was the divine order and isfet was the chaos

who unified upper and lower egypt?

narmer

the hieroglyphic writing system utilized what?

symbols

what helped decode the hieroglyphic writing system?

the rosetta stone

under which period did the Egyptian art style only ever change?

the Armana period under ruler akkanadan

what are pyramids like?

a giant tomb stone

why were bodies preserved?

for the Ka

mummifying and burying the dead was an…

elaborate ritual

when mummifying a body they would sometimes save what?

certain body parts

what materials did they protect the mummies bodies with?

linen and resin

what animal would they mummify because it was sacred in their culture?

cats

• title: the great sphinx

• period: old kingdom, egypt

• traits: head of a human, body of a lion, had the face of the ruler khafra

what is a stylistic trait that distinguishes new kingdom from middle or old kingdom?

their art is more colorful and more detailed

which kingdom was considered the high point in egyptian culture?

the new kingdom

where did the center of power move?

south

who was the first female monarch?

queen hatshepsut

in Egyptian imagery, queen Hatshepsut is sometimes shown the same as…

her male counterparts

under what period did the egyptian artwork greatly change?

the amarna period

Akhenaton changed the society from a polytheistic one to a…

monotheistic one

he did this because changing it gave him…

more power and less power was bestowed on the priests

he also changed where the capital was to which city?

tell el-amarna

during the amarna period, names of gods were….

chiseled out of monuments

akhenhaton belived and proclaimed that he was the son and prophet of…

aton

the figures have longer __ which signifies elegance

necks

traditionally a ___ was the vehicle that carried the Ka through its eternal journey in the afterlife

boat

much of the art in the middle kingdom deliberately echoed ___ especially in the funerary realm

old kingdom forms

depictions of women during the middle kingdom have increasingly narrower ___ and slimmer ___

shoulders and limbs

while depictions of males often during the middle kingdom have proportionally smaller ___ and lack the tight __ of their old kingdom counterparts

heads, musculature