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2 The Art Ofancient Egypt
2 The Art Ofancient Egypt
2 The Art Ofancient Egypt
of
Western
Civilization
Prehistoric Art
Lascaux Cave Paintings- 15,000-11,000 B.C.
Chauvet Cave Drawings- 28,000 B.C
Venus of Willendorf - 25,000 B.C.
Stonehenge - 3,000-2,000 B.C.
The Fertile Crescent- Mesopotamia
The Earliest Civilizations
Ziggurat- a stepped mountain made of brick-covered
earth
Ziggurat at Ur- 2100 B.C. (reproduction shown below)
Tower of Babel- c. 3500 B.C.
Sumeria
Bull-headed lyre soundbox.
Ur, Iraq c. 2685 B.C.
Sumerian Votive figures
The Akkadian Period (ca. 2350–2150 B.C.)
Sargon of Akkad-
c. 2300 B.C.
King Naram-Sim- c. 2230 B.C.
Celebrates military victory
The Akkadian Period (ca. 2350–2150 B.C.)
Cuneiform; Writing with wedge-shaped characters.
The earliest known written language
Babylonian Period
Code of Hammurabi- 1772 BC
a list of common sense laws etched in
stone
Ex. Law #196. "If a man destroy the eye of another man,
they shall destroy his eye. If one break a man's bone,
they shall break his bone. If one destroy the eye of a
freeman or break the bone of a freeman he shall pay
one mana of silver. If one destroy the eye of a man's
slave or break a bone of a man's slave he shall pay one
half his price.
The Age
of
Empires
Assyrian Empire-
2500 BC to 605 BC
King Nebuchadnezzar-
605 BC – 562 BC
Persian
Empire
626 BC - 539 BC
Audience Hall
http://www.eyelid.co.uk/hirom
enu.htm
The Rosetta Stone is a Ptolemaic
age granodiorite stele inscribed
with a decree issued at Memphis
in 196 BC on behalf of King
Ptolemy V. The decree appears in
three scripts: the upper text is
Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs,
the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest
Ancient Greek. Because it presents essentially the same
text in all three scripts (with some minor differences
among them), it provided the key to the modern
understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Painted on the walls of the tomb’s was a false door
which the ka would pass through in search of
offerings.
Servants were painted
along the side offering
food and drink for
the ka.
Outside influences
started to encroach
on Egypt’s art and near
the end it lost its
uniqueness.
Getlin, M. (2010). Living with art. Opening up to the
world, pages 524 thru 531. McGraw Hill. Chicago.