Art Flashcards

Ch 3 (29 cards)

1
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3500 bce flourishing society with art paintings tombs

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Pre-Dynastic Period

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2
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a rectangular or brick or stone structure with sloping sides with sloping sides erected over an underground burial chamber

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Mastabas of egyptian history

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3
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IMhotep was a master builderfor king Djoser. of the third dynasty. it is the first recorded name in hostory of an artist

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Imhotep and djoser

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4
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The firts of three great periods egypt periods called the old, middle and new

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Old Kingdom

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5
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The egyptians constructed the 3 major pyramids at gizeh in the course of 75 years to serve as the tombs if the 4th dynasty kings

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Gizeh

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6
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tomb of Khufu

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The great pyramid

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7
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seated statue one of a small # of basic formulaic types old kingdom sculptors employed

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Menkaure

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8
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2150 bce the egytptians challenged the power of the weak kings of the 6th dynasty and for more than a century the land was in a state of civil unrest and near anarchy. But in 2040 bce the king of upper egypt Mentuhotep 11 managed to unite egypt again under a single ruler establishing the middle kingdom

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Middle kingdom

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9
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rock cut tombs

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chaacteristic burials of the middle kingdom tomb. Largely replaced the mastaba

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10
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followed middle kingdom and was the most grandiose with egypt a metropolis during this time kings became know as pharos

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New kingdom

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11
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the most distinctive of the royal mortuary temples errected for female pharoh hatshepsut

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Deir el bahri

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12
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Theoptosis - ruled by god
Permanence
Horus - god of the Living 
Osiris - god of the underworld
Amen (Amun) Re - the god of the Sun
Aton - Sun disk, universal god of Amarna period
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unchanging order of things

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13
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palette of king narmer signifiying the unification of Egypt

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Palette

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14
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First type of pyramid

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step pyramid

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15
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First stone pyramid

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step pyramid at saqqara

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16
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mastaba was was constructed with another mastaba on top of each other etc making a pyramid

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step pyramid construction

17
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using nature as colums

18
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3 pyramids

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Graet pyramids

19
Q

marks the burial for khufu one of the 3 great pyramids also was first pyramid with hidden chambers to hide riches

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Pyramid of Khufu

20
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where the 3 great pyramids are and the sphinx

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Khafre pyramid complex

21
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is sort of a composite creature lion human head khafre is the head

22
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the panel is of a scribe who generally came out of the royal family who could write, most egyptians could not write. formulaic approach with a grid pattern to follow

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panel of hesire

23
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formulaic art relief there shows they movement for the first time

24
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individualized face

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seated scribe

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first woman pharo in egypt tomb
hetscheptsut mortuary
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temple of ramses the 2nd carved out of the sandstone.
abu simbel
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was moved 700 feet so it woukd be flooded
temple of ramses
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married to akhenaton
nefertiti
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deplicted stone inlay with arkhenaton, nefertiti his children and the sun god ignored old kingdom art as it showed the pharo as living
akhenaton family