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Art History
11th Grade
09/16/2014

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Apanda

  • Great hall of the palace
  • stone columns
  • capped with paired bulls
  • Interesing b/c columns unknown in Mesopatomia
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Pallete of Narmer (Front)

  • Cat necks together= Upper/Lower egypt connected
  • Depression held eye makeup
  • King Narmer hierarchial scale
  • King/dead from 2 views= clarity
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Pallete of Narmer (back)

  • 3000 BCE
  • Human handed falcon= God horus
  • Horus= Protector of the Pharorahs
  • Falcon hold lower egypt
  • Oldest label art
  • See king as god like figure
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[image]
Definition

Mastabas

  • Egyptian Tomb
  • interior walls decorated with reliefs
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[image]
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Step Pyramid of King Djsoer

  • 2750 BCE
  • By earliest named artist Imhotep
  • Displayed power with height
  • Resembles Mesopatomia ziggurat

 

Term
Columns of North Palace
Definition
  • Unfluted with head
  • Bell Capital represents papyrus stalks
  • Engaged columns 
  • Imhotep didnt trust column to stand alone
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[image]
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Great Pyramids at Giza

  • Built by Khufu. Khafre. Menkure
  • covered in limestone
  • Face east towards rising sun
  • Oreinted cardinal points
  • Each pyramid had temple connected to path
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[image]
Definition

The Great Sphinx

  • 2500 BCE
  • Carved in situ (in place)
  • Earliest colussus
  • Might be image of Khafre
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[image]
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King Djoser Scupture

  • Recovered from Saqqara
  • Frontal, stiff, compact
  • Imhotep made
  • 2750 BCE
  • Subtractive method
  • Bilaterally Symmetrical
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[image]
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Satue of Khafre

  • 2500 BCE
  • Calm, Order, Stability
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[image]
Definition

Menkaure and Khamerernbty

  • 2500 BCE
  • King with Queen
  • Frontal, compact, stiff
  • Stresses strength of Pharoahs
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[image]
Definition

Menkaure between 2 goddesses

  • Touching shoulders = intimacy
  • Left cow goddess Hathor
  • Hathor= Protector of Pharoahs
  • Menkaure in front of Gods
  • 2500 BCE

 

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[image]
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Ka-Aper

  • 2500 BCE
  • Sculpture life like
  • Recovered from a mastaba in Saqqara
  • Stiff Stance
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[image]
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Seated Scribe

  • As status declines, realism goes up
  • From Saqqura Now in (Lourve in France)
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[image]
Definition

Ti wathcing a hippo hunt

  • 2400 BCE 
  • Ridges are swamp of stalks
  • No attempt for distance
  • Composite view
  • Ti's skirt and arrows are parallel (Order)
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