...That is a lot of change in less than two decades. Especially when considering how set the Egyptian people were within their ways. To have their entire ways of life be radically switched by one man and his regime must have taken a toll on the Egyptian psyche. For we can see that as soon as his death the new king change the main cult back to Amun-Ra. Not only this but the Egyptians tried to strike as much of Akhenaten’s influence from the record. However with time the evidence has become unearthed and gives us an insight into the Amarna period and all of the modifications that Akhenaten attempted to enact upon Egypt. All in all Akhenaten’s reign was very different from other kings of his time. It is an interesting era to study in a modern sense. However the Egyptian people were not equipped to deal with a religious revolution so quickly for a single deity that a king that reigned less than 20 years chose to worship. However it does show the power that the king held within his title. It also shows how easily one could be stricken from the record and how time can reveal them and their radical...
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...Michelle Cabirac ARS 101 1/30/12 Essay #1 The relief sculpture of the pharaoh Akhenaten, Nefertiti and three Daughters, along with the relief sculpture of Mai and Urel emerged from the eighteenth dynasty during the New Kingdom, and commenced a brief artistic revolution in Egyptian art. These two sculptures portrayed a sense of realism that was never seen before in the earlier/ancestral Egyptian artwork. By comparing and contrasting the two relief sculptures one can achieve a better sense of what each piece of art was trying to express. By examining both the relief sculptures of Akhenaten, Nefertiti and three Daughters, and Mai and Urel, several differences can be depicted. Many of these unlike characteristics involve a representation of the human form and appearance. At the top of the sculpture of Akhenaten, Nefertiti and three Daughters, appears a sun disk with rays angling down on all of them to represent the God of Aton. However, no such reference to Aton can be found in the sculpture of Mai and Urel. Next, the figures are seated facing one another in the sculpture of Akhenaten, Nefertiti and three Daughters, while the figures are both facing right in the sculpture of Mai and Urel. In addition, the Akhenaten, Nefertiti and three Daughters sculpture clearly has a reference to offspring. In the sculpture of Mai and Urel no children seem to appear. A few other contrasting characteristics of these two relief sculptures involve specifically the human form. The...
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...painting? Fresco What is the difference in the depiction of male and female figures? The female are painted in a dark color and the male are in a light color What are distinguishing factors of Cretan figures as manifested here? Long curly hair & proud and self-confident bearing 3. Landscape with swallows (Spring Fresco), from room Delta 2, Akrotiri, Thera, ca. 1650-1625 BCE. Is this the largest and most complete prehistoric example of a pure landscape painting? No Is the environs of Akrotiri rendered realistically? Describe. Yes the painter used vivid colors and undulating lines to capture the essence of nature 4. Marine style octopus flask, from Palaikastro (Crete), ca. 1450 BCE. Describe development and characteristics of Cretan pottery. What is the relationship between the decoration and the shape of this vessel? The marine style vase has dark figures on a light back ground the tentacles of the sea creature reaches out all over the surface of vessel tio fill the shape perfectly 5. Snake goddess, from the palace, Knossos (Crete), ca. 1600 BCE. How does this figure compare to Mesopotamian or Egyptian figures? What is distinctly Cretan? Her breasts are out in the open 6. Harvester's Vase, from Hagia Triada...
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...such a long time if it did not incorporate artwork? While that remains unknown, it is still quite clear that art played a big role in the religion of ancient Egypt. Whether it be through wall monuments, the Book of the Dead, the mummification process or something else, these two things are closely related to each other. The religion in ancient Egypt was closely centered around the different gods and the afterlife, and art reflected this. Ancient Egyptians associated many different traits that animals had with attributes of the gods, which lead to them being depicted with the heads of animals. The gods were shown in all types of artwork, a common one being narrative art, which told a story often honouring the achievements of someone. The style of art in Egypt was also created to appease the gods. People were drawn in both side and front perspectives at the same time to show the gods the most of their bodies that they could, and pharaohs and gods were also much larger than other figures to highlight their significance....
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...Egyptian and Aegean Art Ancient Egyptian art and ancient Aegean art both existed in different historical time periods, thus lending to the very distinct differences in styles. Ancient Egyptian art began its creation in 3000 B.C. and having reached its highest level in painting and sculpture by 300 A.D. { }. Egyptian art was highly symbolic and stylized in contrast to the more naturalistic Aegean art. Historically, Egyptian art evolved over several different periods such as the Predynastic, Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom, Amarna, third intermediate periods, and the Ptolemaic { }. In contrast, ancient Aegean art existed from 3000 B.C. to 1200 B.C. and included various styles and cultures, such as: Cycladic, Minoan, Mycenaean, and cyclopean...
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...and ducks and other types of animals swimming in the water. The water is really rare in desert and this image shows that it may be a natural oasis or a manmade pond. There are food and water for the afterlife. Fowling in the Marshes From tomb of Neb-amon 1400-1350BCE New Kingdom, Egypt Banquet Scene 1350BCE Music, dress, people with clothes and head. Abundance of jewelry, representing social level. A Garden Pool from tomb of Nebamon 1400-1350BCE New Kingdom, Egypt https://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.com/1025/flashcards/672836/jpg/tomb-of-nebamun-4.jpg Counting the Geese, 1400-1350 BCE from tomb of Neb-amon, New Kingdom, Egypt how things were distributed, the size of society managed, how to document things. Life style of them. Tomb of Ramose The Funeral Banquet Portraits OF Ramose and wife Ramose holds sacred bundle of papyrus flowers 1375-1365 BCE New Kingdom, Egypt http://ih0.redbubble.net/image.22573813.5462/flat,800x800,070,f.u2.jpg Important narrative images in tomb Papyrus flowers were one of the basic abstract design in...
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...Ancient Art The pieces of art that will be compared comes from the Egyptian art collection; one from the Old Kingdom of the 4th Dynasty, the other from the New Kingdom of the 19th Dynasty. The works from the 4th Dynasty is called Princess Nefertiabet and her food, dating between 2590-2565 b.c. and the works for the 19th Dynasty is called The Goddess Hathor Welcomes Sethos I, dated between 1290-1179 b.c.. Both paintings reflect the lifestyle of the Egyptian beliefs through the use of hieroglyphics. The Egyptians were strong believers in the sun god Ka, and that there was life after death and “that part of human being that defines personality and that survives life on earth after death”(A World of Art,6th ed., 2009). A lot of the paintings created are about the afterlife. Priness Neferiabet was the daughter of Snefru and the best artists of their times were commissioned to create a painting depicting all the riches the princess would have in the afterlife. The stele is 37.5 cm in height and 52.5 cm in width and painted on limestone, with vibrant colors of red, yellow, black and green. The various inscriptions tell the onlooker about the various items such as food and clothing that were taken with the princess. They are also deliberately placed on the limestone in various ways. For instance, the pictorial for libation is placed in front of her face possibly meaning the importance of food. The painting of Hathor and Sethos I carries a different story of the...
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...Crafted in the early Amarna art style, the bust depicts the Egyptian queen Nefertiti in all her beauty, complete with her long, almost serpentine neck, hooded eyes, and high cheekbones. Her expression is one of dignity and grace, reflecting the meaning of her name, which is roughly translated as "the beautiful one has come" (Egyptian Museum 2014). The bust itself was found in the workshop of the court sculptor Thutmose, and the most agreed upon theory is that it was used by the company of court artists as a prototype for depicting Nefertiti. The use of the bust as a prototype also explains the missing inlay of Nefertiti's left eye due to the master sculptor using the unfinished bust to help teach his pupils how to carve the internal structure of the eye (Bearden 2012...
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...Art Essay ART has not always been what we think it is today. An object regarded as Art today may not have been perceived as such when it was first made, nor was the person who made it necessarily regarded as an artist. Both the notion of "art" and the idea of the "artist" are relatively modern terms. Many of the objects we identify as art today -- Greek painted pottery, medieval manuscript illuminations, and so on -- were made in times and places when people had no concept of "art" as we understand the term. These objects may have been appreciated in various ways and often admired, but not as "art" in the current sense. ART lacks a satisfactory definition. It is easier to describe it as the way something is done -- "the use of skill and imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others" (Britannica Online) -- rather than what it is. The idea of an object being a "work of art" emerges, together with the concept of the Artist, in the 15th and 16th centuries in Italy. During the Renaissance, the word Art emerges as a collective term encompassing Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, a grouping given currency by the Italian artist and biographer Giorgio Vasari in the 16th century. Subsequently, this grouping was expanded to include Music and Poetry which became known in the 18th century as the 'Fine Arts'. These five Arts have formed an irreducible nucleus from which have been...
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...faces of rocks, in the early eighth millennium BC .They were believed to be a manner of recording data. The depiction of the essential day today activities of their lives, like wild games, hunting scenes, river boating and domesticating animals were among the drawings. The art of the Predynastic period has endured in the form of carved stone , ivory grave goods, pottery vessels, which were placed near the dead body in burial cavities. Figures of living beings dedicated in fulfillment of a vow, were often female statuettes made of pottery and ivory. They may have related to early fertility followers of religious beliefs, as they amplified sexual features. Some of the painted scenes on pottery vessels show the prehistoric rock-carvings and styles and preoccupations of the Dynastic period. At the end of the Predynastic period, a vast number of different ceremonial artifacts, like maces, palettes and ivory handled flint knives, became prominent in the emerging religious ritual and social status. Many of the more elaborate mace heads and palettes, such as those of the kings named Scorpion and Narmer, were discovered in a deposit of the temple at...
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...As I enter my first college class, my attention goes to Professor Feldman, a tall, slender woman in a loose pearl blouse with black dress pants. The combination of her graceful stance and scholarly presence distinguishes her already from the chaos of the lecture room. The calm demeanor spreads through the room as she gradually turns the lights down low, signaling the beginning of lecture, and gives life to the art historian’s companion, the slide projector. Her slow and steady speech is punctuated by inflections at nearly every other word and reflects her scholarly presence. She picks her words carefully and you can sense the moment’s thought before each. Her precisely chosen words make each one valuable as I frantically try to catch them all. Feldman incorporates her elevated vocabulary in daily speech and lecture, requiring that I form my own vocabulary list: mélange, koine, cache, lingua franca, etc. In spite of being intimidated by Professor Feldman’s scholarship, the fellow human being, Marian Feldman, shows through at times. She does not hesitate to admit “When did those excavations take place?” or “Who was that guy who ruled Babylon? I never remember that one.” At one point she might exclaim, “Well, it doesn’t matter anyway” followed by a signature chuckle. She welcomes corrections or additions by students, and some questions lead her to guiltily admit, “You caught me. I was trying to avoid that one because, well, we just don’t...
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...this course. You do not need to wait until you have difficulties or have received a poor grade before asking for my assistance. Your performance in my class is very important to me. I am available to hear your concerns and just to discuss course topics. Feel free to come by my office anytime during these hours. Course Description This course is a global investigation of the styles and methods of artistic production covering Prehistoric through Gothic periods. Media studied include: drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, printmaking, textiles, ceramics, and metal arts. Using this framework, universal themes are studied within their historical, political, economic, theological, sociological, and ethnic contexts. Prerequisites Must be placed into college-level reading and college-level writing Academic Learning Outcomes for Program Lecture Courses 1. Identify the formal elements and principles of design.***** 2. Apply critical thinking when comparing works of art. Course Student Learning Outcomes (SLO): 4 to 7 1. Identify and describe works of art based on their chronology and style, using standard categories and terminology. 2. Investigate major artistic developments and...
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...What does the tomb of tutankhamen and its contents show about the Egyptian concern for the afterlife? Tutakhamen's tomb, and the artifacts inside are an indication of the concern the Ancient Egyptians held for the after-life of their king. In 26th Nov. 1922, the English archaeologist Howard Carter opened the virtually intact tomb of a largely unknown pharaoh: Tutankhamen. This was the first, and to date the finest royal tomb found virtually intact in the history of Egyptology. It took almost a decade of meticulous and painstaking work to empty the tomb of Tutankhamen. Around 3500 individual items were recovered. When the Burial Chamber of Tutankhamen was officially opened, on 17 February 1923, the Antechamber had been emptied. It had taken near fifty days to empty the Antechamber; the time required to dismantle and restore the contents of the Burial Chamber including the gilded wooden and the sarcophagus was to be greater, and the work was not completed until November 1930, eight years after the original discovery. One must examine both the tomb itself, and its contents, to see the connection between the tombs and burial rituals and the doctrine of eternal life. The royal tombs were not merely homes in the hereafter for the kings, as are the private tombs of commoners and nobility. Instead the tombs are cosmological vehicles of rebirth and deification as much as houses of eternity. As the king is supposed to become Osiris in a far more intimate way than commoners, he is equipped...
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...HUM 1000: WORLD CIVILIZATIONS NOTES BY DR. KAKAI P.W THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION IN AFRICA Definition of key terms As we begin this course, it is crucial to first discuss our understanding of the concept ‘civilization’. This is a comparative term which is usually applied in comparison to such words as ‘barbarian’ ‘savage’ and ‘primitive’. In classical antiquity the Europeans used the word ‘barbarian’ to refer to a foreigner who was regarded as inferior (Ogutu and Kenyanchui, An Introduction To African History, 1991 p33). Do you think this is still the way we use the word barbarian? The Latin speakers referred to hunters, food-gatherers as savage. In the 17th century this term ‘savage’ referred to a person without art, literacy, or society who lived in fear of existence and death. ‘Primitive’ on the other hand, in Latin meant ‘the first or original’. Europeans used these words interchangeably when referring to non-Europeans while the word civilization was preserved to describe historical developments of European people (ibid). Now the term civilization is no longer confined to the above development but also extends reference to non-European communities. Attributes of civilization includes observance to law, belonging to an organized society, having a society of literate people with advanced developments in urbanization, agriculture, commerce, arts and technology. The French thinkers of the 18th century referred to a person of the arts and literature...
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