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Architectural Contributions of Mesopotamian and Egyptian Art

Explore Mesopotamia's urban civilizations and their great architectural innovations including arches, vaults, ziggurats, and the Ishtar Gate. Discover Egyptian art's use of lints, monumental structures, temples, tombs with afterlife scenes, and Greek and Roman architectural influences.

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Architectural Contributions of Mesopotamian and Egyptian Art

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  1. HISTORY MESOPOTAMIAN AND EGYPTIAN ART

  2. MESOPOTAMIA

  3. THE FIRST URBAN CIVILISATIONS: MESOPOTAMIAN ART MESOPOTAMIA’S GREAT CONTRIBUTIONS TO ARCHITECTURE: THE ARCH AND THE VAULT ALLOWED ARCHITECTS TO CONSTRUCT HIGH BUILDINGS. THE ARCH IS ABLE TO SUPPORT A LOT OF WEIGHT DISTRIBUTING THIS ALONG THE WHOLE BUILDING. ZIGGURAT: MESOPOTAMIAN BUILDING MADE OF ADOBE. THEY WERE PYRAMID-SHAPED TEMPLES WITH A SANCTUARY ON THE TOP.

  4. THE FIRST URBAN CIVILISATIONS: MESOPOTAMIAN ART ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF MESOPOTAMIAN ARCHITECTURE: THE ISHTAR GATE, IN BABYLON. GLAZED CERAMICS DECORATED BUILDINGS. THEY SHOWED FLORAL AND ANIMAL MOTIVES, GEOMETRIC DESIGNS AND SCENES OF WAR.

  5. HISTORY 2. EGYPTIAN ART

  6. EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE LINTEL EGYPTIAN ART USED LINTELS AND WAS BASED ON MONUMENTALISM (HUGE MONUMENTS). HORIZONTAL STONE SUPPORTED BY TWO PILLARS. EGYPTIAN TEMPLES SHOW HOW THEY WERE USED IN ARCHITECTURE

  7. THE EGYPTIAN TEMPLE TEMPLES HAD DIFFERENT PARTS. ONLY THE PHARAOHS AND THE PRIESTS COULD ENTER THE SANCTUARY AVENUE OF SPHINXES

  8. EGYPTIAN TOMBS ALL THE TUMBS SHOWED PAINTINGS ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE AND THE JUDGEMENT OF OSIRIS

  9. EGYPTIAN TOMBS: paintings THIS PAINTING SHOWS THE GOD ANUBIS, GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD, MUMMIFYING A BODY. EGYPTIANS PRACTICED MUMMUFICATION TO PRESERVE THE BODIES FOR THEIR JOURNEY TO THE AFTERLIFE

  10. GREEK ART

  11. GREEK ART 1. SCULPTURE The DORYPHOROS BY THE SCULPTOR Polykleitos shows theGreek CANON (Perfectbodyproportions): seven times theheight of the head

  12. GREEK ART 2. ARCHITECTURE THE DIFFERENCES AMONG THE THREE ORDERS FOCUS ON THE COLUMN AND CAPITAL

  13. ROMAN ART ARCHITECTURE ROMAN ARCHITECTURE USED BOTH THE ARCH AND THE VAULT / LINTELS AND COLUMNS

  14. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AQUEDUCT, WHICH TRANSPORTED WATER TO CITIES FORUM, the public square in cities. PUBLIC BATHS (THERMAE)

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