2.
Egyptian art focuses on the afterlife through
PYRAMIDS & TOMB PAINTING
Egyptian art remained unchanged for 3,000 years which
coincides with their obsession with immortality. Their
biggest concern was assuring a comfortable afterlife
for their rulers who they viewed as Gods.
The Egyptian period produced literature, medical
science, and higher mathematics helping maintain the
worlds FIRST large scale unified state.
3. The Tomb
Ka: spirit, the inhabitant
Stocked with earthly delights
Paintings and HIEROGLYPHICS
(formal writing system) tell the
story of the deceased’s life &
activities
Portrait statues as an alternative
dwelling place incase the
mummified corpse deteriorated
Prince Rahotep & Wife Nofret
2610 B.C., Limestone, Cairo
4. Sculptures & Paintings
Human body depicted
with front view of the
eye & shoulders and
profile view of the
head, arms and legs
Size of the figure
signifies rank
Statues made of granite
and diorite
6. Mummy Art
Housing for Ka
Long, detailed
process
Once complete the
body was placed in a
SARCOPHAGUS
King Tutankhamen’s
tomb is the only one
in near original
condition.
7. The Great Pyramid of Giza
2,300,000 limestone
bricks
2.5 tons each
Log rollers, brick
ramps & wooden
sledges to haul bricks
480 ft tall
4,000 construction
workers
23 years completion
time
Most of what we know about Egyptian art comes from tombsPrince Rahotep & Wife Nofret
The focus was on eternal life in death and through time, granite and diorite helped ensure the art would live on for ages to come
Pharaoh Akhenaton radical reformer and artist, husband, loosened artistic conventions in the bust of his wife, more natural and soft. 100 year anniversary of the find, currently located in Berlin after much feuding between Egypt and Berlin regarding it’s rightful place
Proper housing for KA, extracted brains with a hook, removed major organs and placed in separate urns, soaked in brine 1 month, then hung to dry, stuffed and swaddled with bandages, then nested in a sarcophagus. King Tut died at 19, unimportant in death. Tomb discovered in 1922, Gold couches, throne, walls. 20 connected with the unsealing mysteriously died..”curse of the pharoah” World tour
Avg lifespan 35 years
Largest pyramid = smallest sculpture of owner, Cheops, wicked, three chambers, believed Cheops true chamber is under queen’s, boat found under pyramid, left by Cheop’s son?
