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Identify the general features and characteristics of the Predynastic Period, Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom, and the Amarna Period. Make a chart! Pick at least one artwork for each period and describe how it specifically describes the uniqueness of each period.
Why do we look mainly at ancient Egyptian funerary architecture and not at domestic architecture? To which did the ancient Egyptians give a higher importance––and how can we prove this?
Predynastic
The Palette of Narmer, which was created about 3000B.C.E., is extremely important in Egyptian history and art for several reasons.
What does it document politically?
Describe the iconography of each side.
What did the object function as?
What does the object tell us about religion and the king?
Why is this object considered the earliest historical artwork preserved?
Palette of King Narmer, from Hierakonpolis, Egypt, Predynastic, ca. 3000–2920 BCE. Slate, 2’ 1” high.
IMHOTEP, Stepped Pyramid and mortuary precinct of Djoser, Saqqara, Egypt, Third Dynasty, ca. 2630–2611 BCE.
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Palette of Narmer,
Hierakonpolis, c. 3100 B.C.
Egyptian Museum, Cairo Photo© LaCour Slide Library
Living With Art Slide Set
| Old Kingdom
Great Pyramids, Gizeh, Egypt, Fourth Dynasty. From bottom: Pyramids of Menkaure, ca. 2490–2472 BCE; Khafre, ca. 2520–2494 BCE; and Khufu, ca. 2551–2528 BCE.
Great Sphinx (with Pyramid of Khafre in the background at left), Gizeh, Egypt, Fourth Dynasty, ca. 2520–2494 BCE. Sandstone, 65’ X 240’.
Khafre enthroned, from Gizeh, Egypt, Fourth Dynasty, ca. 2520–2494 BCE. Diorite, 5’ 6” high. Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Seated scribe, from Saqqara, Egypt, Fourth Dynasty, ca. 2500 BCE. Painted limestone, 1’ 9” high.
Ti watching a hippopotamus hunt, relief in the mastaba of Ti, Saqqara, Egypt, Fifth
New Kingdom
Senmut, Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el-Bahri, c.1473-1458BC
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Photo© LaCour Slide Library
Living With Art Slide Set
Great Pyramids, Gizeh, Dynasty IV. From left: Pyramids of Menkaure, ca. 2490-2472 B.C.; Khafre, ca. 2520-2494.; and Khufu,
ca. 2551-2528 B.C..
Photo: LaCour Slide Library
Art Across Time Slide Set (wncc)
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 Hatshepsut's Mortuary Temple
(c. 1480 BCE).
18th Dynasty, Dier El Bahari
Photo© LaCour Slide Libraryc
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