IRL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hatshepsut, Basalt, Megaron
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Spirit of dead, what you"ll do in the afterlife. Egyptian art very stable, little innovation because valued longevity and consistency. Followed established conventions e. g. composite, hierarchal scale, but animals/nature more natural and realistic. People shown in v few stylized postres. Nile annual flood, could irrigate and grow crops. Banks great for agri, good for deploying troops, protect land. King sign of authority = strap on beard, cobra, whisk etc. Resurrectionists: believed afterlife where bodies and stuff would still be there. Tombs v preserved, much art from buirla goods. V stable, periods when north/south egypt were apart. Depression is for kohl: signs of agri, prosperity. Like standard of ur war and peace: extra: first hieroglyph: serekh = area where the royal name is inscribed, conventions: Egyptian art had conventions and individualizations too: canonical art: further convention, grid system for canon of proportions, based on person"s palm, depicted people in most recogniable view, composite not realistic.