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24 Cards in this Set
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Upper and Lower Egypt unite |
3100 BCE |
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Relief (low/high) |
carving into a 2D surface; deep carving is high relief |
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Egyptian building materials |
-stone -adobe (baked mud bricks) |
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Imhotep |
first recorded artist; designed Stepped Pyramid of Djoser; 2600 BCE |
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3 Kingdoms of Egypt |
-Old -Middle -New |
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Reserved Column |
column which doesn't bear weight |
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Axial Temple |
temple plan designed around single line (axis) |
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Straight-axis Approach |
axial temple based on a straight line directly into the temple |
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Hypostyle Hall |
hall filled with closely-packed columns which support the roof |
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Colossi |
large sculptures |
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Atlantids |
man-shaped column |
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Clerestory |
windows/cuts in walls to provide light |
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Pylon Entryway |
simple, massive gateway with sloping walls |
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Chamfered Column |
column which has straightened sides; octagonal when viewed from top |
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Amarna Period |
short time in Egyptian history (during the New Kingdom) when Akhenaton broke religious and artistic conventions by worshiping only one god; didn't portray himself as a god |
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Egyptian Conventions |
-use of registers -combined text/image -2D works seen from side, front or top -3D work very blocky - many horizontal/vertical lines -people of high rank in strict conventions (hieratic scale) |
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Narmer Palette Old Kingdom - 3000BCE; stone, low relief -records history of uniting Upper/Lower Egypt -demonstrates Egyptian conventions -used to mix makeup |
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Seated Scribe Old Kingdom - 2400BCE; painted limestone -shows naturalism in lower classes |
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Mastabas Old Kingdom - pre-3000BCE -low structure built over buried tomb |
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Great Pyramids Giza Old Kingdom - 2500BCE; cut stones, polished limestone -each a tomb for a specific pharaoh -poor tomb design, all robbed |
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Great Sphinx Old Kingdom - 2500BCE -believed to be portrait of Khafre -head in unconventional pharaoh pose -purpose unknown; possibly a guardian |
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Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut Middle Kingdom - 1450BCE -cut into cliff side, mimicking existing rock -axial design; straight axis approach -darkness indicates sacred places |
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Mortuary Temple of Ramses II Abu Simbel New Kingdom - 1250BCE -colossi are conventional, but lack detail because of size -large works indicate turmoil -rock-cut tomb |
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Statue of Akhenaton New Kingdom, Amarna Period - 1350BCE -large convention break: curves rather than blocks -reality shown in sagging skin -intended to break religion in favor of worship of Aten |
