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Egyptian Art

Egyptian Art. Day 3- Relief Sculpture. Vocabulary. Canon of Proportions : The rules or style of the proportions of the human body . The Canon of Proportions . Human Figure. Crowns of Ancient Egypt. Pictograph : a form of writing using pictures

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Egyptian Art

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  1. Egyptian Art Day 3- Relief Sculpture

  2. Vocabulary • Canon of Proportions: The rules or style of the proportions of the human body

  3. The Canon of Proportions

  4. Human Figure

  5. Crowns of Ancient Egypt

  6. Pictograph: a form of writing using pictures Palette: common utensil for grinding eye makeup Hieratic scale: bigger is more important and divine Vocabulary

  7. Palette of Narmer (c. 3,000 B.C.)

  8. PAPYRUS- common plant at the Nile-used for paper REGISTER tool used for space definition GROUNDLINES demonstrates depth in the register Vocabulary

  9. Palette of Narmer- Front

  10. Palette of Narmer- Back

  11. Vocabulary • Relief: Basically a 2-d image made 3-d; the flat background surface is carved away to a certain depth to set off the figure

  12. Ti Watching a Hippopotamus Hunt (c. 2500-2400 B.C.)

  13. Vocabulary • Sunken Relief: the outlines of the figures have been carved into the surface of the stone instead of being formed by cutting away the background

  14. Vocabulary • Ankh: Egyptian key of life

  15. Akhenaten and His Family (c. 1300 B.C.)

  16. Vocabulary • Book of the Dead:An Ancient Egyptian funerary text that would assist the dead in the afterlife • Included hymns, spells and instructions

  17. Judgement of Hunefer before Osiris (c. 1285 B.C.)

  18. Vocabulary • Canopic Jar: Used in the mummification and ritual processes. • Held the vital organs of the corpse

  19. Extra Time? Who wants to mummify a dead body?

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