Department of History
The Fieldston School
History of Art through the Renaissance- Power, Patronage, Propaganda. Production and Perception
Andrew Meyers
U1 D5-8
Mesopotamian and Egyptian Art- Representing the Ideal and the Real
Egyptian order: divinity and hierarchy
The Nile Valley- Egypt (3200-500 BC)
Map of Ancient Egypt
Nile Scene, Pre Dynastic (4000-3200 BC)
Farming and trade
Social classes
Science and Math
Politics
Kingdoms, Dynasties, Rulers
theocracy
Religion
life and death
funerary customs: mummification
Ra (sun god, as falcon-headed man or disk)
Osiris (afterlife, order, founder of Egypt, as mummy)
Isis (consort of Osiris), Horus (son of Osiris, as falcon)
Pharaoh and concept of ka
Art and Architecture
tombs, mastabas, step pyramids, pyramids, columns
Old Kingdom (3200-2155 BC) I-VI Dynasties
Upper and Lower Egypt
Palette of King Narmer , Hierakonopolis, I Dynasty (3200-2700 BC)
“hieroglyph” “pictographs”: Upper and Lower crown, eye of horus, falcon (horus), ankh,
scarab
Horus, god of upper Egypt; Bull and Narmer (reigned 3100 BC)
order and logic, perspective; orthogonality; the question of “realism”
Priest and son, IV Dynasty
(online)
Fourth Dynasty
hieratic scale and stylistic conventions
Mastaba to Pyramid
Pyramid of Zoser, Saqqara, III Dyn (27802680)
Pyramids, Giza; Mycerinus (Menkaura), Chefren (Khafra), Cheops (Khufu)
Louis Kahn, Pyramids at Giza, 1951 AD
I.M. Pei, Louvre
(2530-2470 BC)
Chefren (Khafre), Giza (2500 BC)
Menkaure and Queen, IV Dyn
(2680-2565 BC)
Prince Rahotep and Nofret, IV Dyn (2580 BC)
same
the question of realism
Sheikh-el-Beled, Saqqara, V Dyn (2565-2420)
Sheikh-el-Beled’s wife
Scribe, Saqqara, V Dyn (2565-2420)
interregna
Middle Kingdom (2134-1785 BC) XI and XII Dynasties
Senousret I, XII Dynasty
Standing figure, 1st interregna (2258-2052)
Head of Sesostris II , XII Dyn
(1874-1855 BC)
split into North and South
confusion and loosening of artistic conventions
perfection of mummification
New Kingdom (1500-1162) XVIII-XX Dynasties
Amun and Ra
move to Thebes
Queen Hatshepsut:
Osiris Pillar, Temple of Q. Hatshepsut (1500 BC)
Osiris
Gender
Plan of Temple
H. as Sphynx
Aten and Akenaten
move to Amarna
“Akhenaten style”
Akhenaten and Sun Disk, Amarna (1372-50)
Tutankhamen
Tutankhamen funeral mask (1340 BC)
Throne, detail of T. and wife
sarcophagus
smallest coffin
mummy case
vestiges of aten worship
Temple of Amon at Karnak, 1320-1200 BC
return to Thebes
Air view
Entrance to Great Temple, sphinxes
Hypostyle hall
Late Period (1085-332 BC) and Ptolomaic Period (330-30 BC)
cultural diffusion
God Amun (1085-332)
Mummy panel (150 AD) Fayum, Encaustic and wood
Temple of Hatshepsut, XVIII Dyn.
View
Hatshepsut standing
Queen Nofretete (1360 BC)
Tutankhamen crowned by Amun
treasure room
second coffin
casket for entrails
hunting scene on chest
Plan, xix Dyn (1314-1197)
protodoric columns and closed
papyrus capitals
types of columns
High Priest Ankh, XXV Dyn
(730-663)