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Ancient Egyptian Art

Ancient Egyptian Art. New Kingdom. Key Ideas. Re-unification after the second intermediate period and more civil unrest (in addition to exterior forces) Great temple complexes A female Queen! ( Hatshepsut) Amarna Style ( very briefly) – more natural King Tut Ramses II

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Ancient Egyptian Art

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  1. Ancient Egyptian Art New Kingdom

  2. Key Ideas • Re-unification after the second intermediate period and more civil unrest (in addition to exterior forces) • Great temple complexes • A female Queen! ( Hatshepsut) • Amarna Style (very briefly) – more natural • King Tut • Ramses II • First kingdom to use the term pharaoh(great house) to mean king • Change to worship of one god (briefly)

  3. Queen Hatshepsut, 1450 BCE, granite Filled role of male pharaoh by wearing male clothing, false beard, cobra on headdress Slight hint of breasts First Egyptian queen

  4. Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, 1470 BCE, Deir el-Bahri2 ramps; 3 colonnaded terraces; not buried there; visually coordinated with the cliffs behind it; first woman celebrated in art history;

  5. Akhenaten, 1350 BCE, sandstone Formerly known as Amenhotep IV Started Amarna style – first significant artistic change in two thousand years Body has same style as old kingdom, but smoother and more relaxed Thin arms, heavy eyelids, big hips, paunchy stomach hangs over waistband of skirt Still gets the beautiful girl, though! (see next slide)

  6. Nefertiti, 1350 BCE, limestone Amarna style Long, elegant neck Delicate features Wife of Akhenaton Pattern in headdress mirrors pattern on collar Unusual because it include shoulders – may have been made for a full-body statue – found in sculptor’s studio

  7. Mask of King Tutankhamen, 1323 BCE, gold, enamel, semi-precious stones Tomb discovered by Howard Carter in 1922 Mummified body buried with 143 objects Gold coffin Smooth idealized features Minor king – famous because his burial chamber was unmolested until 1922

  8. Temple of Amen-Re, Thebes HUGE, tightly packed columns Hypostyle halls Axial plan (split by vertical path) Elaborately painted

  9. Ruins of Great Temple of AmunKarnak

  10. Temple of Ramses II, 1250 BCE, Abu Simbel EgyptRock-cut tomb resembles pylon; Ramses repeated four times as large seated figures carved in-situ; sun god over the entrance; royal family are smaller statues at his legs; interior statues of Ramses carved in reserve; sunlight enters center on October 21 and lights up a statue inside

  11. Interior of Temple of Ramses II Statues in reserve Statue deep inside gets a suntan October 21st

  12. Temples of Ramses II (left) and Nefertari (right)

  13. Judgment before Osiris, 1285 BCE, papyrusIllustration from Book of the Dead (spells and charms); Osiris (god of the dead) enthroned on right; jackal-headed hybrid, Anubis (god of embalming), is leading deceased to have his heart weighed against feather; hippo will eat the heart of an evil soul; bird-headed hybrid, the god Thoth, records event

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