ARTH 1100 Lecture 3: LECTURE 3 - Egyptian & Aegean Art
10 Feb 2017
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Made of 2. 3 million blocks, some weighing up to 20-80 tons. Material came form a quarry located 800 km from building site. Micro & macro organization : micro = individual skill, macro = administrative marshaling of manpower. Nk grew into empire, expanding borders east (asia), west (libya), & south (nubia or sudan gold mines) Brought in booty & new precious resources. Wider foreign contact & trade w/ asia and aegean islands. Made possible development of new capital = thebes. Became great & luxurious metropolis w/ magnificent palaces, tombs & temples. Focus of egypt towards south (upstream) of the nile, around luxor. Pharaohs again link themselves to sun god ra, but now fused w/ a lesser god (amun) to become new amun-ra. Created new powerful caste of priests of amun, which eventually took over society. Schematic drawing of the funerary temple of hatshepsut, deir el-bahri: 1473-1458 bce. Pairing of nature & architecture astronomical alignment (winter solstice: sunlight illuminates statue of amun-ra)
