Discovering Art History pages 160-168

Read Discovering Art History pages 160-168

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  Old Kingdom (2700-2040 BCE)
  
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  Middle Kingdom (2040-1640 BCE)
  
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  New Kingdom (1552 - 1069 BCE)
  

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  Mastaba -
  
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  Step pyramid -
  
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  Pylon -
  
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  Obelisk -
  
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  Hypostyle -
  
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  Frontal -
  
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  Profile -
  
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  Register -
  
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  Descriptive perspective (p611) –
  
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  Hieroglyphics -
  

Old Kingdom Art Innovations

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  Architectural marvels
  
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  Massive sculpture in-the-round
  
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  Painted relief sculpture
  
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  Papyrus developed
  

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  Narmer Palette, 3000-2920 BCE, slate, Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
  

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  Imhotep, Step Pyramid of King Zoser, 2630-2611 BCE, limestone, granite, mud brick, 203 ft. high, Saqqara, Egypt (p160)
  

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  Rahotep and Nofret, 2575 BCE, painted limestone, 122 cm high, Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  

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  King Menkaure (Mycernius) and His Queen (Kha-merer-nebty II), 2548-2530 BCE, graywacke, 4’ 8” high, Boston Museum of Fine Arts. (p162)
  

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  Great Sphinx, 2500 BCE, Giza, Egypt.
  

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  The Great Pyramid of Giza, 2580-2560 BCE, limestone (p161)
  

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  Seated Scribe, 2400 BCE, limestone, Louvre, Paris, France. (p163)
  

Middle Kingdom Art “Humanizes”

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  Relaxed figures
  
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  Emotional faces
  
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  Rock cut tombs instead of free-standing pyramids
  

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  Tombs of Beni Hasan, 1950-1900 BCE, cut limestone, Egypt.
  

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  Funerary Barge, 1800 BCE, 12^th dynasty, polychromed wood, 31” long, British Museum, London, England. (p164)
  

New Kingdom Art – Exaggeration and Celebrity

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  Rounded and elongated figures
  
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  Celebrity and character
  

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  Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, 1473-1458 BCE, Deir el-Bahri, Egypt. (p163)
  

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  Temple of Ramses II, 1290-1224 BCE, Abu Simbel, Egypt. (p168)
  

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  Temple of Amen-Re, 1290-1224 BCE, Thebes, Egypt. (p165)
  

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  Nefertiti, 1353-1335 BCE, painted limestone, Egyptian Museum, Berlin. (p168)
  

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  Mask of King Tutankhamen, 1323 BCE, gold, enamel, semiprecious stones, Egyptian Museum, Cairo. (p167)
  

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  Greenfield Papyrus, 1080 BCE, 21^st dynasty, 19” high, British Museum, London, England. (p166)