The document provides an overview of ancient Egyptian art and culture. It describes how ancient Egyptians created paintings and sculptures to decorate tombs and pyramids in order to provide help for the soul in the afterlife. Key art forms discussed include sculptures of pharaohs and gods, gold masks placed on mummies, and wall paintings in tombs that depicted daily life. Architecture such as pyramids and temples are also summarized.
4. Paintings that decorated the walls of the tombs in Egypt were intended to keep alive the history. The pictures and models found in Egyptian tombs were connected with the idea of providing the soul with helpmates in the other world. These wall-paintings provide in extraordinarily vivid picture of life as it was lived in Egypt thousands of years ago.
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7. Geography This location kept Egypt separate from the rest of the world, so the Egyptians had a unique and enduring style of life and art for about 3,000 years.
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9. People Artists, craftsmen and scribes were honored and admired. A scribe is a scholar who could read and write. Scribes wrote on papyrus. Papyrus is a reed pounded to make a heavy type of paper.
26. Sculpture Faces face forward, and the left foot is slightly ahead of the right. There are no open spaces in the stone that the figures are carved from.
40. Painting Ancient Egyptians followed a very strict set of rules in their art. One of these rules was to show the human body from the most familiar or visible angle.
41. Painting Again, the figures appear to be rigid and stylized. Notice the left foot and body posture.