Valencia High School AP/IB Art History Mrs. Schultz
Content Area 2: Ancient Mediterranean
Chapter 3: Egypt
3500 B.C.E. - 30 B.C.E. (9 WORKS)
Context:
Geographical Isolation
Economic Security
Deeply Held Religious Beliefs
Hierarchical Society
Geological Substructure
Belief in the Afterlife
List of Required Works (AP Students):
Cue Cards
Palette of King Namer. Predynastic Egypt. c. 3000 – 2920 B.C.E. Greywacke. (p.54-55, 57-58, 66)
Seated scribe. Saqqara, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2620- 2500 B.C.E. Painted limestone. (p. 65-66)
Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx. Giza, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2550- 2490 B.C.E. Cut Limestone. (p. 60-63)
King Menkaura and queen. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2490- 2472 B.C.E. Greywacke. (p. 64-65)
Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall. Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th and 19th Dynasties. Temple: c. 1550 B.C.E.; hall c. 1250 B.C.E. Cut sandstone and mud brick. (p. 72-73)
Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut. Near Luxor, Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. c. 1473- 1458 B.C.E. Sandstone, partially carved into a rock cliff, and red granite. (p. 69-70)
Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters. New kingdom (Amarna), 18th Dynasty. c. 1353- 1335 B.C.E. Limestone. (p. 78)
Tutankhamun’s tomb, innermost coffin. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. c. 1323 B.C.E. Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones. (p. 78)
Last judgment of Hu- Nefer, from his tomb (page from the Book of the Dead). New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty. c. 1275 B.C.E. Painted papyrus scroll. (p.80)
List of Required Vocabulary:
alluvial deposits
canon/ canon of proportion
Amarna period
ben-ben/ fetish stone
Inundation of the Nile
convention (versus innovation)
ka
hierarchal
imhotep
pyramidal
monotheism
iconoclast
Akhenaton
mortuary temple
causeway
sphinx
engaged columns
fluting
necropolis
pyramid precinct
clerestory
hypostyle hall
colonnade
pylon
axis
bi symmetrical
sanctuary
sacred lake
atlantids
cardinal points of the compass
mastaba
pyramids
stone courses
valley temple
mortuary temple
living rock
corbeled arch/ corbeling
post: column (types of capitals: bell and bud) shaft drum base (of column)
lintel: entablature limestone tensile strength of stone obelisk
Sculpture: negative relief/positive relief types of stone: diorite, granite, slate atlantids
Painting: fresco secco technique of wall painting twisted perspective
hierarchal ordering
Ideas/Concepts:
1: How is the concept of hierarchy expressed in the design of New Kingdom temples?
2: Why is there very little change (of style) in Egyptian art and architecture (except Amarna period)?
3: Why did Egyptian craftsmen adhere to a “canon of proportion” and strict conventions of representing the human figure in Egyptian painting, relief and sculpture?
4: Understand how contextual issues relate to the function of Egyptian painting, sculpture and architecture?
5: Understand how the function of Egyptian painting and tomb sculpture determines style.
6: Why did Egyptian painters concentrate on conceptual reality rather than presenting an optical reality?
Egyptian Sculpture: Conventions of representing the human figure
1: Idealized flawless body (youth), perfect facial feature (prime of life), no emotion, serenity
2: Timelessness figure compact, without gesture, with no protruding breakable parts, carved in diorite (hardest stone available), to last for all time
3: Power and Authority iconography reflects kingship and religious power and the divinity of pharaoh.
4: Stereotypical Poses figures carved according to a canon of proportion and gestures
Egyptian Painting: Conventions of representing the human figure in Egyptian Art
(wall painting, relief sculpture)
1: Twisted Perspective used- two points of view combined into the representation of a single figure.
2: Canon of proportion: always used in representing figures
3: Formalization of anatomy and stance = rigidity, lack of sense of movement
4: Hierarchical organization of figures within a composition (relief and painting, but also sculpture groups)
5: Little of no depth within composition registers used to organize figures
6: Literal presentation of information conceptual ordering of symbols, motifs, hieroglyphics, patterns
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