SET 2 - History of Art: ID-2242: Exam 2

New Kingdom Egyptian

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Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and three daughters,

1353-1335 BC

Amarna Period

• Named himself. Amenhotep IV = Akhenaten

• Monotheism: the belief in a single god/creator (Aten: Sun God)

• Akhenaten on the left and the queen on the left.

• The solar disk in the sky,

• Inscribed a “Hymn to the Aten” on the wall

• The land grows bright… the sun disk by day

• Schema: Circular shape as the sun, in pelvis of both shoulders

• Not referencing “afterlife”

  Earthly existence: playing with children, family life, leisure

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Akhenaten sacrificing to Aten,

1353-1335 BC

Amarna Period

• They are making offerings to aten.

• Bringing blessings in a ritualized way

• Value perspective (Akhenaten is represented as much larger and powerful than nefertiti).

• Composite view

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Akhenaton Pillar Statue

1335 BC

Amarna Period

• Akhenaton built city Akhetaten, also called "Horizon of the Aten"

• *Aten = sun God

• Three dimensional structure of Akhenaten or maybe its the spirit vessel.

• Schema of circle.

• Solar plexus.

• Same angularity of pyramids, shoulders

• Life-size scale. King is monumental

• Realism? Trying to represent what he looked like?

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Tomb of Akhenaten ,

1335 BC

Amarna Period

• Walls of the tomb were later mutilated/scraped away/delete from history/disturbing them for their passage in the afterlife.

• Tomb is preparation for afterlife

• Value perspective

• References to teh Sun God, Aten

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Thutmose, Nefertiti

1353-1335 BC

Amarna period

• Nefertiti = most beautiful woman 

• 19 inches tall, lifesize

• Limestone, plaster, beeswax surface, eye out of quartz crystal

• Polychromed: painted with a great deal of colors.

• One eye is missing.

• 2006 CT scan shows teh orginal scultpure portraying an older  woman, possibly satrted before her death, and smoothed it out to perfect it. 

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Temple complex at Karnak

1290-1224 BC

New Kingdom Egyptian

• Temple Complex: Corridor axis, Bilateral symmetry, triangular layout

• Pylon, Court, Hypostyle hall, Colossus

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Tomb of Tutankhamen

1323 BC

New Kingdom Egyptian

• Tutankhamen: Akhenaten’s sons by a minor wife (unknown name)

• Great deal of gold had not been disturbed

• - 18 years old at death

• - Went to older brother’s tomb to borrow.

• - Over 5,000 objects left from grave robbers.

• - Mummy encased within three coffins

  • 1st coffin: believed to be from older brother, sarcophagus

  • -2nd coffin: solid gold

  • -3rd coffin: wood covered w/ gold

    • mummy wearing a death Mask

    • mummy slippers

• - Chair/throne, carriage that carried you to the afterlife?

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Temple of Ramses II / Abu Simbel /

1224 BC /

New Kingdom Egyptian

• 4 large colossal figures at the entrance of ramses

• Carved into moutain

• Temple complex

• Atlantis

• One of the figures was damaged by a volcanic eruption

• restored and pushed back the offshore line

• Temple of Nefetari which was right next to it, was also restored

Important Info (Ancient Egyptian Art II)

Amarna Period

•1351-1334 BC

•Perspective + composite view

•Doesn't reference "afterlife"

•Family life, children, leisure

New Kingdom Egyptian Art

•1550-1055 BC

•Temple complex: corridor axis, bilateral symmetry, pylon wall, court, hypostyle hall, clerestory, colossus, obelisk, columns

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Temple Complex at Luxor

1353 BC

New Kingdom Egyptian

• New Kingdom Egyptian temple complex

• corridor axis

• bilateral symmetry

• triangular layout

• pylon wall

• court

• *Obelisk

• hypostyle hall

temple complex

Various temples put together in a complex meant to be experienced as a

whole

bilateral symmetry

(what matches on the left is also on the right)

- Flow of the nile river, life is like a river flowing down from life to afterlife

coordior axis

proceed through a cooridor that connects them together

triangular layout

rooms decreasing in size from the entrance to the

sanctuary (smaller angular at the end)

pylon

gateway of walls with sloping slides

- Slice from a pyramid

- Polychromed - brightly painted and decorate

Court

open to the sky. Standing on the earth. Largest experience of space

in the complex.

- Defined by the columns, reference to the lotus flower. (lotus

columns to symbolize upper egypt

Hypostyle hall

• Hall in which the roof is supported by columns

• - Has columns that are covered with a roof structure.

• - Makes use of Clerestory: fenestrated opening (window) in a roof that allows for light passage or ventilation

• - Columns symbolically for lower egypt with the papyrus flower.

• - 134 columns, 88 feet tall, 22 feet diameter at top - massive!

• -Sunken reliefs

colossus

monumental, overly large stature

atlantids

male figures used as a column or as a support structure

Obelisk

column with sloped sides and pyramid on top