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Name: Stepped Pyramid of King Djoser
Period/Style: Predynastic/Egyptian Date: 2630-2611 BCE Artist/Patron: Imhotep/Djoser Location: Saqqara, Egypt Medium: mud brick, wood, reed Technique: stacking, diminishing size, columns Function: burial site for nobles/royalty Context: pharaoh (leader), celebration of afterlife, post-mastabas, polytheism Descriptive Terms: several levels, "god like" |
Architecture
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Name: Great pyramids of Giza
Period/Style: Old Kingdom/ Egyptian Date: 2528-2490BCE Artist/Patron: paid laborers/ Menkaure, Khufu, Khafre Medium: mud bricks Technique: stacking, mathematical calculating Function: tombs for some of the 4th Dynasty pharaohs Context: architectural innovation, influenced by sun rays Descriptive Terms: descending size as goes up, triangular prism |
Architecture
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Name: Seated Scribe
Period/Style: Old Kingdom/Egyptian Date: 2400 BCE Artist/Patron: unknown Location: Saqqara, Egypt Medium: limestone, paint Technique: sculpture Function: convey the importance of scribe, buried in a tomb Context: limited literacy, organized gov. and religion Descriptive Terms: naturalistic features, obesity=non royal |
Sculpture
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Name: Palette of Narmer
Period/Style: Predynastic/ Egyptian Date: 3000-2920 BCE Artist/Patron: unknown Location: Hierakonpolis, Egypt Medium: slate Technique: relief Function: record events/ narrative Context: unification of Upper and Lower Egypt Descriptive Terms: eloped feline necks= unification, hierarchy of scale |
Sculpture
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Name: Khafre Enthroned
Period/Style: Old Kingdom/Egyptian Date: 2500 BCE Artist/Patron: unknown Location:Gizeh, Egypt Medium:Diorite Technique: relief Function: eternal stillness, timeless afterlife, serenity, perfection Context: pharaoh/monarch, divinity Descriptive Terms: emotionless, unrealistic, perfect features |
Sculpture
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Name: Temple of Amen-Re
Period/Style: New Kingdom/Egyptian Date: 1290-1224 BCE Artist/Patron: unknown Location: Karnak, Egypt Medium: stone slab, cement Technique: columns, incising Context: polytheism, temples Function: temple (place of worship) Descriptive Terms: massive columns, artificial lake |
Architecture
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Name: Menkaure and his wife (Khamerenbty)
Period/Style: Old Kingdom/ Egyptian Date: 2500 BCE Artist/Patron: unknown Location: Gizeh, Egyptian Medium: Graywacke Technique: high relief Function: not to show affection but marriage Context: pharaoh, polygamy, women "subordinate" Descriptive Terms: emotionless, unrealistic |
Sculpture
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Name: Sculpture of Hatshepsut
Period/Style: New Kingdom/Egyptian Date: 1473-1458 BCE Location: Deir el-Bahri, Egypt Medium: Red Granite Technique: sculpture Function: shows Hatshepsut taking part in religious ritual Context: polytheism, 1st woman pharaoh Descriptive Terms: in men's clothes, kneels before gods, broken up |
Sculpture
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Name: Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
Period/Style: New Kingdom/Egyptian Date: 1473-1458 BCE Artist/Patron: unknown Location: Deir el-Bahri, Egypt Medium: limestone Technique: sculpture, columns Function: burial place for Hatshepsut Context: First female pharaoh, columns popular, monarchy Descriptive Terms: columns, large arrangement of buildings |
Architecture
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Name: Work from Armana Period
Period/Style: Old Kingdom/Akhenaton Date: 1300 BCE Artist/Patron: unknown Location: Karnak, Egypt Medium: sandstone Technique: sculpture, reliefs Function: show intimate side of pharaoh, realistic Context: change in Egypt's religion and politics Descriptive Terms: |
Sculpture
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Name: wall paintings of Tomb of Nebamun
Period/Style: New Kingdom/Egyptian Date: 1400 BCE Artist/Patron: unknown Location: Thebes, Egypt Medium: fresco secco Technique: front and profile, registers Function: display funerary occurrences Context: death celebrated, polytheism, pharaoh Descriptive Terms: hierarchy scale, register/narrative, earth tones |
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