Art History - Chapter 03 Pharaohs & the Afterlife

Know the NAME, PERIOD, & ONE SENTENCE ABOUT WHY ITS SPECIAL

What is it?

Palette of King Narmer

Predynastic

slate

Twisted perspective hierarchy of scale.

Represents the uniting of upper and lower Egypt. (The bowling pin hat is from upper Egypt)

What is it?

Seated Scribe

Old Kingdom

Painted limestone

{as a human subjects importance decreases, formality is relaxed and realism increases.}

What is it?

The Great Pyramids - Menkaura

Smallest one -newest one

Old kingdom

What is it?

The Great Pyramid - Khafre

Middle in size - second one

Old Kingdom

What is it?

The Great Pyramid - Khufu

Biggest - oldest

Old Kingdom

What is it?

King Menkaure and Queen ( Khamernebty II)

Made of Grey wack

Old Kingdom

important people = idealized

Rare for the husband and wife to be the same size. Could also be his mother we don’t know.

What is it?

Temple of Amun Re (Pylon Temple)

Largest religious temple in ancient Egypt

pylon temple (big wall)

the temple just kept getting additions as more pharohs came along

New Kingdom

What is it?

Hypostyle Hall

giant fat columns that are 66 ft high that support the roof

Engravings cover the columns because Egyptians are obsessed with surfaces

Sunken reliefs - they had lotus tops

In Amun re temple

New Kingdom

What is it?

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

First female Pharoh - mix of depictions describing her as a man because she was the pharoh and addressing her feminity

Used to celebrate the living

used to look similar to the hanging gardens of babylon

New Kingdom

What is it?

Akhenaton, Nefertiti & their three daughters

Limestone

New kingdom

Relaxed figures - hierarchy of scale (same size) - 12 in height

Aton - is the sun disc

the whole portrait is very intimate and unprecedented in egyptian art

What is it?

King Tuts intermost Coffin

1323 BCE

His Inter most coffin - made of Gold

Only relevant because we found his tomb fully intact. He ruled at age 9.

New kingdom

What is it?

The Great Spinx

Old kingdom

65 ft tall

Carved into the landscape (bedrock - ancient limestone)

Eroding quickly

What is it?

The book of the dead

New kingdom

Collection of Spells and prayers - continuous

this scene portrays the final judgment. where they weigh the heart agaist a feather.