ACC 406 Lecture 20: IRL100 - Week 2
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Mesopotamia, ancient egypt, the tomb of the first qin emperor. Great pyramids at giza dated from the old kingdom. Pyramids for the pharaohs were robbed in antiquity. Funerary practices, idealization (cid:1005)9(cid:1006)(cid:1004)s eyeli(cid:374)er dis(cid:272)o(cid:448)ered; (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) did(cid:374)"t (cid:449)ear eyeli(cid:374)er i(cid:374) the west (cid:271)efore this to(cid:373)(cid:271) (cid:449)as discovered. *amarna style during the reign of akhenaten: 1356-1336; concentrating on continuities rather than changes in style. Ground lines for figures to have some place to stand. People i(cid:374) (cid:271)a(cid:272)kgrou(cid:374)d are (cid:374)ot further a(cid:449)ay they just are(cid:374)"t as i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t. Hieroglyphics: egyptian method of writing that depends on pictures. Figure (from upper egypt) killing someone from lower egypt. Falcon is representation of narmer; powerful and scary. Depression may have been for grinding of cosmetics; black around your eye creates less glare. Upper and lower egypt turned around on map. Painting of garden from the tomb of nebamum 1390 b. c (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)eptual(cid:863) (cid:448)ersus (cid:862)opti(cid:272)al(cid:863) represe(cid:374)tatio(cid:374)s. Mesopotamia may have portraiture; certainly in egypt.