Ap Art History Egyptian Art Flashcards

"Palette of King Narmer." Predynastic Egypt". c. 3,000-2,920 BCE. Greywacke. hierarchical scale used in burial rituals decapitated enemies heads

"Seated scribe". Saqqara, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2,620-2,500 BCE. Painted limestone.the place were the Ka would go not idealistic

"Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx". Giza, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2,550-2,490 BCE. Cut limestone. during WW2 spinx's nose blown off spinx believed to be the pharaoh, Khafe, he had the middle largest pyramid built for him

"King Menkaura and queen". Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2,490-2,472 BCE. Greywacke.staggered foot, left foot forward pharaoh had multiple wives

"Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall". Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th and 19th Dynasties. Temple: c. 1,550 BCE. Hall: c. 1,250 BCE. Cut sandstone and mud bricks.peristyle courtyard papyrus, lotus, and palm columns

"Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall".

"Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut". Near Luxor, Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. c. 1,473-1,458 BCE. Sandstone, partially carved into rock cliff, and red granite.nemes (headdress)

"Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut". )

"Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters". New Kingdom (Amarna), 18th Dynasty. c. 1,353-1,335 BCE. Limestone.moved toward a monotheistic way of religion ankh ( a symbol of everlasting life)

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"Tutankhamun's tomb, innermost coffin". New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. c. 1,323 BCE. Gold, enamel, and semiprecious stones.

"Last judgement of Hu-Nefer, from his tomb (page from the Book of the Dead)". New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty. c. 1,275 BCE. Painted papyrus scroll.

Amarna style

art created during the reign of Akhenaton, which features a more relaxed figure style than in Old and Middle Kingdom art

ankh

an Egyptian symbol of life

axial plan

a building with an elongated ground plan

clerestory

a roof that rises above lower roofs and thus has window space beneath

engaged column

a column that is not freestanding but attached to a wall

ground line

a base line upon which figures stand

hierarchy of scale

a system of representation that expresses a person's importance by the size of his or her representation in a work of art

hieroglyphics

Egyptian writing using symbols or pictures as characters

hypostyle

a hall in an Egyptian temple that has a roof support by a dense thicket of columns

In situ

a Latin expression that means that something is in its original location

Ka

the soul, or spiritual essence, of a human being that either ascends to heaven or can live in an Egyptian statue of itself

Mastaba

Arabic for "bench," a low, flat-roofed Egyptian tomb with side sloping down to the ground

Necropolis

literally, a "city of the dead," a large burial area

papyrus

a tall aquatic plant whose fiber is used as a writing surface in ancient Egypt

peristyle

a colonnade surrounding a building or enclosing a courtyard

pharaoh

a king of ancient Egypt

pylon

a monumental gateway to an Egyptian temple marked by two flat, sloping walls between which is a smaller entrance

register

a horizontal band, often on top of another, that tells a narrative story

relief sculpture

sculpture which projects from a flat background. A very shallow relief sculpture is called a bas-relief (pronounced: bah-relief)

sarcophagus (plural, sarcophagi)

a stone coffin

stylized

a schematic, non-realistic manner of representing the visible world and its contents, abstracted from the way that they appear in nature

sunken relief

a carving in which the outlines of figures are deeply carved into a surface so that the figures seem to project forward

old kingdom

2575- 2150 BCE

middle kingdom

1975-1640 BCE

new kingdom

1539-1075 BCE