AP ART HISTORY: SHMERYKOWSKY
EGYPTIAN ART (SCULPTURE)
EGYPTIAN ART: 31000 BCE: TWO KINGDOMS
44-31000BCE: pre Dynasty: trying to unify kingdoms
POLYTHISM
OSIRIS/ IRIS/ RA
Egyptian Society: Old/ Middle/New Kingdoms
“PALETTE OF KING NARMER” 3100 BCE EGYPT slate
 Commemorative stone: STELE
 CUBIC: vertical/ horizontal grid
 CANON/ HIERARTIC
 Historical relief
 Commemorate unification of Upper and Lower Egypt
 Registers
 Pictographs
“WATCHING HIPPO HUNT” or “TI” 2500BCE painted limestone incised relief
 Most likely fro tomb
 Carved lines- shows vegetation
“CATTLE FORDING A RIVER” 2500BCE Reliefs in Mastaba of Ti
1. Painted limestone
2. Fording Nile: metaphor: passing into afterlife
“MENKAURE and KHAMERERNEY” or “MENKAURE AND HIS WIFE” 2500BCE
 From major pyramids in Giza
 substitute homes for the KA (Spirit)
 frozen gestures
 married
 left leg- slightly forward: “moving forward”
 high relief
“RAHOTEP AND HIS WIFE” 2580 BCE Painted Limestone
 Eyes laid with quartz and rock crystal
 Rigid pose/ upright
 Darker skin (male )
 More makeup (female)
“SEATED SCRIBE” 2500BCE Painted Limestone
 Capture character and personality of scribe
 21 inches tall
 More organic
 Written record of history
 Image repeated through history
“TIYE” Ghurab Egypt 18th Dynasty 1353-1335 BCE
 Wood, gold, silver, alabaster, lapis
 Portrait of Akhenetonsmon
 Queen: She became the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III.
“Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters” limestone
 King Akhenaton (left) with Queen Nefertiti and three of their daughters under the rays of the sun god
Aton, Egypt, mid-14th century BCE
 Sunken relief
 Rare intimate look into royal family
 Aton: sun disk
“NEFIRTITI: From AMAMA 18th Dynasty (1335-1335 BCE) Painted Limestone
 28 inches high
 Akhenaton’s influential wife
 Long delicate curved neck
 “Beautiful one has come”
 Geometric but natural
 New Kingdom
“DEATH MASK OF KING TUTUKAMEN” 18th Dynasty (1323BCE)
 From inner most part of tomb
 Semi-precious stones
 Treasures: wealth of Egyptian pharaohs
 A lavish afterlife
 Mummy encased in 3 nested coffins
 Innermost gold portrayal of pharaohs as Osiris
 Inner most is a fitting form
 Tomb in Valley of the Kings
 Sarcophagus
 Wide eyes/ translucent
 Crook and frail
 Tomb opened in 1920s
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