Egytian architecture

1. EGYPTIAN ART

2. GEOGRAPHY
• relates to two
regions: North
Africa and
Southwest Asia.
•Egypt has
coastlines on
both the
Mediterranean
Sea and the Red
Sea.

3. •The country
borders Libya to
the west,
the Gaza Strip
and Israel to the
east,
and Sudan to
the south.

4. The longest
straight-line
distance in
Egypt from
north to south is
1,024 km
(636 mi), while
that from east
to west
measures
1,240 km
(771 mi).

5. PEOPLE
•Egyptians are
an ethnic
group and
the citizens of Eg
ypt sharing a
common culture
and a variety
of Arabic.

6. PEOPLE
Scribe
• hunters and
fishermen
• soldiers
• slaves
• priests
• scribes
• artists and
craftsmen
• farmers and
herdsmen

7. The priests Craftsmen

8. Slaves Soldiers

9. PEOPLE
Cleopatra
The last active pharaoh
• The leader was called
a PHARAOH.

10. SOCIAL STATUS

11. DAILY LIFE
• The ancient
Egyptians
maintained a rich
cultural heritage
complete with feasts
and festivals
accompanied by
music and dance.

12. • A painted depiction
of Senet, one of the
world's earliest
known board
games.

13. CLOTHING
Was made from
simple linen
sheets that were
bleached white.
mode of clothing

14. RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
• They believe in the
divine and in the
afterlife.
• Believed that every
human being was
composed of
physical and
spiritual parts
or aspects.
The Book of the Dead

15. BURIAL CUSTOMS
An Egyptian mummy kept in
Vatican Museums
• They believed
immortality after
death.
• Mummification is
one way of
preserving the
human body.

16. Canopic jars of Neskhons, wife
of Pinedjem II. Made of calcite, with
painted wooden heads. Circa 990–969
BC. On display at the Britis Museum.

17. WRITING
• Hieroglyphics are an
early form of picture
writing.
Hieroglyphics

18. PAPYRUS
A thin paper-
like material
made from
the pith of the
papyrus plant.
Papyrus (P. BM EA 10591 recto column IX,
beginning of lines 13-17)

19. ROSETTA STONE
a granodiorite
stele inscribed
with
a decree issued
at Memphis,
Egypt.
The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum.

20. EGYPTIAN ART
• The Ancient
Egyptians produced
art to serve
functional
purposes.
Narmer Pallete

21. FUNERARY ART
Any work of art
forming, or
placed in, a
repository for
the remains of
the dead.
Ushabti of pharaoh Ramesses IV
(20th Dynasty)

22. AMARNA ART
Characterized by a
sense of movement
and activity in images,
with figures having
raised heads, many
figures overlapping
and many scenes
busy and crowded.
Akhenaten, Pharaoh of Egypt.
Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

23. Egyptian Painting

25. Characteristics of Egyptian Painting
• Heavily influenced by everyday life, especially
religion and life after death.
• Not focused on exact replication, just
representation.

26. • All art looked similar to preserve
a sense of stability among to the
people
• The Egyptian strictly upheld the
style of frontalism, adhering
carefully to stylistic rules.

27. • The subject’s head is always
drawn in profile with the full eye
shown
• The upper body is depicted from
the front and the legs face in the
same direction as the head with
one foot in front of the other

28. Egyptian Hieroglyphics
• means Egyptian paintings has close
connection with its written language.
• Also painted on linen, remnants of which
survive today.

29. Egyptian Hieroglyphics

30. Insights
• I realized that I should appreciate
those paintings that Filipino made
because they contribute in order that
our nation will be popular. Also those
painting they made are important to
them especially to the other people. I
am thankful to them because some
people inspires their art to change to a
better individual.

32. •is an artistic
masterpiece,
immortalizing the
sixth Pharaoh of the
Eighteenth Dynasty.
•The stance of the
statue and the gaze
create an effect of a
graceful yet powerful
king.

33. • The mask is made
from solid gold and is
inlaid with blue glass,
lapis lazuli and various
semiprecious stones.
•It is thought to be
slightly idealized but
there is a general
agreement that it is
essentially a realistic
portrait of the ‘Boy
King’.

34. •is the birth name of
a Fourth Dynasty
ancient
Egyptian pharaoh, who
ruled in the first half of
the Old Kingdom period
(26th century BC).
•Khufu was the second
pharaoh of the 4th
dynasty; he followed his
possible father,
king Sneferu , on the
throne.

35. •is one of the most
pristine images of the
last Egyptian
pharaoh, Cleopatra
VII,
•This masterpiece is
housed at the
Hermitage Museum
in St. Petersburg.

36. •it represents the
apex of the Amarna
Period art.
•the bust made her
one of the most
iconic figures of the
ancient Egypt and
antiquity as a whole.

37. INSIGHTS

38. ARCHITECTURE
• One of the most influential civilizations
throughout history.
• among the largest and most famous of
which are the Great Pyramid of
Giza and the Great Sphinx of Giza.
• Ancient Egyptians were skilled builders.

39. Great Pyramid of
Giza
•The oldest and
largest of the
pyramids.
•The pyramid
designed to
serve as mean
to magically
launch the
deceased
pharaoh soul.
The Great Pyramid of Giza
(c.2565)An icon of
Egyptian civilization, built
thousands of years before
the arrival
of Greek culture.

40. Great Sphinx of
Giza
• Carved from a
rocky ledge.
•It is the
largest monolith
statue in the
world. The Sphinx, Old
Kingdom, Egypt.

41. Temple of
Horus at Edfu
It is one of the
best preserved
temples in
Egypt.
The main entrance of Edfu
Temple showing the first
pylon

42. Khafre’s
Pyramid
the second-tallest
and second-largest
of the Ancient
Egyptian Pyramids
of Giza and the tomb
of the Fourth-
Dynasty pharaoh K
hafre.

43. Tomb
A repository
for the remains
of the dead.

44. Ra
• The ancient
Egyptian
solar deity.
• Also
identified the
midday sun.

45. INSIGHTS
• I have realized that despite their social status
they did not forget to praise and thank their
Gods.
• Their lack of education is not a hindrance for
them to produce a work of art.
• I wonder how they able to build the pyramids
that in fact there were no machines at that time
to help them build it.