Survey of Western Art
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homework3.pptxEgyptian Images of Rulership
Art in service of social hierarchy - architecture as a vehicle for stressing hierarchical social distinctions. Visual arts as a means of rendering a narrative – hymn- into an understandable statement of religious hierarchy – gods, supermen, humanity
Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Uruk, White Temple, 3200 BCE
Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Uruk, Warka Vase, 3200 BCE
Iconographies of height and of materials
Similarities and Differences
Egypt, Palette of Narmer, Predynastic, Egypt, 3000 BCE
Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Uruk , Warka Vase, 3200 BCE
Hieratic compositions
The concept of balance. Order and chaos in harmony – the role of the ruler
Egypt, Imhotep, Saqqara, Pyramid of Djoser, 3Old Kingdom, 3rd dynasty, 2630 BCE
Comparison of the Nile and the Tigris-Euphrates system
Djoser’s Stepped Pyramid and the notion of eternal order. The responsibility of the ruler’s ka
Egypt, Imhotep, Saqqara, Djoser’s Stepped Pyramid, Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty, 2630 BCE
Imhotep, Saqqara, Djoser’s Stepped Pyramid, 2630 BCE Complex, Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty
Continuity, abstraction of forms to carry meanings
Egypt, Gizeh, Great Pyramids, Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty, 2551 – 2472 BCE
Egypt, Gizeh, Sphinx, Khafre portrait, Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty, 2520 BCE
Iconography expressed in forms
Reality through the lens of idealization – the human rendered as divine
Egypt, Gizeh, Ka Statue of Khafre, Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty, 2520 BCE
Egypt, Gizeh, Ka statue of Khafre, Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty,2520 BCE
Iconography expressed in attributes
Contexts for abstraction versus reality.
Egypt, Gizeh, Ka statue of Khafre, Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty, 2520 BCE
Egypt, Saqqara, Scribe’s Ka statue, Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty, 2500 BCE
Contrasting emphases in the compositions that carry iconographic meanings
