Egyptian art and architecture - Relief, Painting, Sculpture
The 18th dynasty also saw Egyptian painting reach its highest achievement in the tombs of the nobles at Thebes. The medium of decoration and an increased range of motifs felt appropriate for tomb decoration led to the introduction of small, often entertaining details into standard scenes.
Egyptian Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met's collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from the Paleolithic to the Roman period (ca. 300,000 B.C.–A.D. 4th century).
Tombs in ancient Egypt - The Australian Museum
In ancient Egypt a tomb, if built and designed properly, had the power to restore life and give immortality to the dead owner. Tomb architecture was complex and its art in the form of painting, sculpture and script gives a glimpse into the …
Egyptian Tombs: Life Along the Nile - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
During these three decades, while working in the cemeteries in western Thebes, across the Nile River from the modern city of Luxor, the Museum’s archaeologists uncovered a number of intact tombs belonging to nonroyal individuals.
Art of ancient Egypt - Wikipedia
Many ancient Egyptian paintings have survived in tombs, and sometimes temples, due to Egypt's extremely dry climate. The paintings were often made with the intent of making a pleasant afterlife for the deceased.
Ancient Egyptian Art - World History Encyclopedia
2017年5月26日 · All Egyptian art served a practical purpose: a statue held the spirit of the god or the deceased; a tomb painting showed scenes from one's life on earth so one's spirit could remember it or scenes from the paradise one hoped to attain so one would know how to get there; charms and amulets protected one from harm; figurines warded off evil ...
Ancient Egyptian art - Smarthistory
Painted sunk relief of the king being embraced by a goddess. Tomb of Amenherkhepshef (QV 55) (New Kingdom, Ramesside) (photo: Dr. Amy Calvert) The function of Egyptian art. These images, whether statues or reliefs, were designed to benefit a divine or deceased recipient.
Egyptian life and death - British Museum
This gallery is home to some of the most famous works of art from ancient Egypt: the tomb chapel of Nebamun. Dating back to about 1350 BC, these are wall paintings from the tomb chapel of a wealthy Egyptian official called Nebamun.
Exploring the Art of Ancient Egypt — Google Arts & Culture
Exploring the Art of Ancient Egypt. Over some 5,000 years the people of the ancient Nile Valley and regions beyond produced some of the easily recognisable works of art the world has ever...
Masterpieces of ancient Egyptian art and architecture
Ancient Egyptian culture was remarkably stable over thousands of years. The British Museum has wall painting from the tomb-chapel of Nebamun that date more than a thousand years after the...