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Title: Characteristics and Images


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Egyptian Art
  • Characteristics and Images

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Characteristics
  • Balance and Symmetry
  • Measured Proportions
  • Geometric Basis
  • Multiple View Points
  • Scale
  • Naturalistic Details
  • Depiction of Animals
  • Color
  • Surface Contrasts

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Balance and Symmetry
  • Balanced Forms
  • Clear Outlines
  • Simplified Shapes
  • Flat Areas of Color
  • Order and Clarity
  • Horizontal Registers
  • Emotion and Activity usually avoided
  • Value and Depth unimportant

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Section from a Book of the DeadThebes, Dynasty
21, ca. 1070-945 B.C.Painted and inscribed
papyrus, h. (of illustrated section) 13 3/4 in.
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Measured Proportions
  • Horizontal and Vertical Guidelines
  • Consistent Proportions
  • Uniformity of balance regardless of scale
  • Adds to Unity
  • Related to the width of the palm of the hand

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Measurements in palm width
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Geometric Basis
  • Cube
  • Horizontal Axis
  • Vertical Axis
  • Guidelines on all sides
  • Figures seldom completely freed from stone
  • Sense of permanence

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Statue of HatshepsutThebes, Deir el-Bahri,
Dynasty 18, ca. 1473-1458 B.C.Limestone
(originally painted), h. 76 3/4 in.
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Multiple Points of View
  • Two-dimensional rules for human figures
  • Each part of body in most complete form
  • Shoulders from the front
  • Torso and hips in three-quarter view so legs and
    arms in profile
  • Head in profile to show both front and back
  • Eye seen from front looking at viewer

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Stela of a Middle Kingdom officialAbydos,
Dynasty 12, ca. 1954 B.C.Painted limestone, 41 x
19 5 /8 in.
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Scale
  • Size indicates relative importance
  • King often larger than life to show powers
  • Wives, family, servants, animals, architectural
    details smaller than high officials or tomb
    owners

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Nikare and his familySaqqara, Dynasty 5, ca.
2420-2323 B.C. Painted limestone, h. 22 1/2 in.
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Naturalistic Details
  • Keen observation of nature
  • Sublte indications of musculature and bone
    structure

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Statuette of an offering bearerThebes, tomb of
Meketre, early Dynasty 12, ca. 1985 B.C.Gessoed
and painted wood, h. 44 1/8 in.
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Depicting Animals
  • Animals often appear
  • Usually symbols associated with life after death

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Ivory hunting dogLate Dynasty 18, 1400-1350
B.C.Ivory, tinted red inside mouth and black
around eyes and on undersides of paws, l. 7 1/8
in.
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Color
  • Use of pure colors
  • Both warm and cool
  • Aesthetic appeal plus symbolic meaning
  • Blue and Greenwater, the Nile, and vegetation
  • Yellow and Goldsun, the sun god
  • Red and Orangedesert, power, blood, and vitality
  • Lighter and darker skin tones used to
    differentiate overlapping figures
  • Menreddish brown skin
  • Womenyellow-tan skin

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Fragment of a battle sceneThebes, Asasif,
Dynasty 18, probably reign of Thutmosis IV (ca.
1400-1390 B.C.)Painted sandstone, 24 x 45 1/4
in.
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Surface Contrasts
  • Stone sculpture
  • Highly polished
  • Rough finely incised details and patterns

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Canopic jar with a lid in the shape of a royal
woman's headThebes, Tomb 55, Valley of the
Kings, Dynasty 18, latereign of Akhenaten (ca.
1349-1336 B.C.) or shortly afterAlabaster with
glass and stone inlays h. 20 1/2 in.
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The images in this presentation were obtained
from the following website.
To view more images and learn more about Egyptian
Art, click on the link below
  • http//www.metmuseum.org/explore/newegypt/htm/th_f
    rame.htm
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