1. Egyptian Art

3. Nile River -Nile River flooded every summer -Deposited layers
of fresh fertile soil
 transition from food gatherers to food producers (farmers)

4. Egyptians relied more on animals they raised than animals they hunted.
They no longer had to move, resulting in building more permanent houses, villages, and kingdoms.

5. Pharaoh most powerful person in ancient Egypt
political and religious leader of the Egyptian people

6. After-Life Beliefs Ka (=soul) leaves body at death, then returns
If body is destroyed  ka (soul) is left wandering SO, Egyptians went to great lengths to preserve bodies
(strong tomb=insurance against final death)
Grave goods (such as small clay sculptures) made to be buried with Pharaohs in their tombs (to comfort them in their afterlife)

7. Sculptures Relief sculptures: stylized Frontal position Rigid bodies
intended to be viewed from one side
carved from a flat tablet/plaque
Sculptures

8. Early form of picture writing
Hieroglyphics
Early form of picture writing

9. Old Kingdom
The beginning…

10. Pyramid
elaborate tomb for pharaoh
Sarcophagus: Stone Coffin

11. Paintings Parts of body shown from the most familiar point of view
Eyes & shoulders were depicted from the front
Face, arms and legs shown from the side
Paintings on the walls of the pyramids, used descriptive perspective: more important figures were drawn larger than others

12. built the first step pyramid (2600 bce)
Imhotep
first known artist
built the first step pyramid (2600 bce)

13. Great Sphinx
body of a Lion and the head of the great Pharaoh Khafre

14. Middle Kingdom

15. Tomb Transitions
Pyramids were expensive so transitioned to building mastabas
Mastaba: low flat tomb

16. Skill of Middle Kingdom artists
King Sesotris III
Skill of Middle Kingdom artists
Realism
Compare the Expression of this sculpture compared to portrait of Khafre in Old Kingdom

17. New Kingdom

18. Hidden Tombs The Valley of the Kings:
Burial place for the pharaohs of the new Kingdom