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EGYPTIAN ART
SCULPTURE AND RELIGIOUS ART
Ancient Egyptian art must be viewed from the standpoint
of the ancient Egyptians to understand it.
Painted sunk relief of the king being embraced by
a goddess. Tomb of Amenherkhepshef
These images, whether statues or relief, were
designed to benefit a divine or deceased recipient.
Three-dimensional representations, while being quite formal,
also aimed to reproduce the real-world……
Egyptian artists embraced the two-dimensional
surface
Each object or element in a scene was rendered from its most recognizable
angle and these were then grouped together to create the whole.
Chaotic fighting scene on a painted box from the tomb of Tutankhamen in the
Egyptian Museum, Cairo (New Kingdom).
Text accompanied almost all images. Hieroglyphs were
often rendered as tiny works of art in themselves
Highly detailed raised relief hieroglyphs on the White Chapel of Senusret I at
Karnak (Middle Kingdom).