The Great Hierakonpolis Palette
Ancient Egyptian art is the painting, sculpture, architecture and other arts created by the civilisation of Ancient Egypt from about 3000 BC to 100 AD. Ancient Egyptian art was able to achieve a high class of painting and sculpture, and was both highly stylised and symbolic. Most of the found art is from tombs and monuments and thus there is an emphasis on life after death and the preservation of knowledge of the past.
Ancient Egyptian art was created using media ranging from drawings on papyrus through wood, stone, and paintings. Ancient Egyptian art displays an extraordinarily vivid representation of the Ancient Egyptian's socioeconomic status and belief systems. Egyptian styles changed remarkably little over more than three thousand years. …show more content…
It is thought by some to depict the unification of upper and lower Egypt under the king Narmer. On one side, the king is depicted with the bulbed White Crown of Upper (southern) Egypt, and the other side depicts the king wearing the level Red Crown of Lower (northern) Egypt. It was mainly made to emphasis on how powerful the king Narmer was, which can be observed by the posture of the king while he's attacking someone and the larger scale of the king indicate that he is the main subject (or character) in that plate. Although Narmer Palette is considered one of the main historical sculptures in ancient Egypt, It is not considered as realistic sculptures in other civilisations. For example if we compare it to the greek art pies Siphnian Treasury, some characteristics are found such as, the naturalistic poses of the characters, The weight is supported by one leg and the other is more relaxed, their capability of moving and the mastered details of the human body. On the other hand king Narmer looks rather stiff in his movement with unrealistic body proportions nor …show more content…
The original Egyptian name for the text, transliterated rw nw prt m hrw is translated as Book of Coming Forth by Day. Another translation would be Book of emerging forth into the Light. "Book" is the closest term to describe the loose collection of texts consisting of a number of magic spells , written by many priests over a period of about 1000 years.
The purpose of the book was to help the dead navigate the dangerous path to the afterlife. For many years, historians have searched the globe for pages from the most famous Book of the Dead. It belonged to Amenhotep, the Chief Builder of the Temple of Amun.
The 'Weighing of the Heart was a ritual of judgement, it is 44.500 cm (length) and 30.700 cm (width). It is from the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. It explains how, after death a person would enter the Duat, or the underworld and deal with many challenges there. Looking at the painting we can see the un-natural scales and proportions of the characters which by far is the usual way of presenting characters in the ancient egyptian
Ancient Egyptian art was created using media ranging from drawings on papyrus through wood, stone, and paintings. Ancient Egyptian art displays an extraordinarily vivid representation of the Ancient Egyptian's socioeconomic status and belief systems. Egyptian styles changed remarkably little over more than three thousand years. …show more content…
It is thought by some to depict the unification of upper and lower Egypt under the king Narmer. On one side, the king is depicted with the bulbed White Crown of Upper (southern) Egypt, and the other side depicts the king wearing the level Red Crown of Lower (northern) Egypt. It was mainly made to emphasis on how powerful the king Narmer was, which can be observed by the posture of the king while he's attacking someone and the larger scale of the king indicate that he is the main subject (or character) in that plate. Although Narmer Palette is considered one of the main historical sculptures in ancient Egypt, It is not considered as realistic sculptures in other civilisations. For example if we compare it to the greek art pies Siphnian Treasury, some characteristics are found such as, the naturalistic poses of the characters, The weight is supported by one leg and the other is more relaxed, their capability of moving and the mastered details of the human body. On the other hand king Narmer looks rather stiff in his movement with unrealistic body proportions nor …show more content…
The original Egyptian name for the text, transliterated rw nw prt m hrw is translated as Book of Coming Forth by Day. Another translation would be Book of emerging forth into the Light. "Book" is the closest term to describe the loose collection of texts consisting of a number of magic spells , written by many priests over a period of about 1000 years.
The purpose of the book was to help the dead navigate the dangerous path to the afterlife. For many years, historians have searched the globe for pages from the most famous Book of the Dead. It belonged to Amenhotep, the Chief Builder of the Temple of Amun.
The 'Weighing of the Heart was a ritual of judgement, it is 44.500 cm (length) and 30.700 cm (width). It is from the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. It explains how, after death a person would enter the Duat, or the underworld and deal with many challenges there. Looking at the painting we can see the un-natural scales and proportions of the characters which by far is the usual way of presenting characters in the ancient egyptian