History of Egyptian Art

  • 100

    Roman Period

    ( A.D.) - Last Use OF Hieroglyphic Writing 300 A.D. Roman art is viuual art made in Ancient Rome and in some territories in Roman Empire.
    Includes: architecture, painting, sculpture and mosaic work.
  • 400

    Byzantine Period

    Byzantine Period
    ( A.D ) - Byzantine art is the name for the artistic products of the Eastern Roman Empire,and the nations and states that inherited culturally from the empire.
  • Dec 6, 700

    Modern Era

    ( A.D. ) - The first generation of modern Egyptian artists were driven by a appreciation of their nation and the return to ancient pharaonic art detached from any African, Arab, or religious cultural references.
  • Aug 6, 712

    Late Period

    (BC)- The last gasp of Egyptian culture before the greek rule began. Precious metal and bronze statuary and equipment had long been with temple cult and ritual. Taste for realistic modeling of features of nonroyal people emerges, while attention to naturalistic modeling of flesh and bone in humans and animals sculpture takes new heights
  • Jul 6, 1070

    Third Intermediate

    (BC)- Little building took place duing this period but artists created many bronze and precious metal artworks for temples, depicting gods and kings.
  • Jun 4, 1550

    New Kingdom

    BC - tombs were decorated with paintings or carved reliefs of religious texts that would help the dead successfully navigate their way to the afterlife. Other tombs had idealized images of everyday life that represented a person's hopes for paradise in the afterlife.
  • Middle Kingdom

    (BC) - The heavy tripartite wig frames the broad face and passes behind the ears forcing them forward. Most of the detail is reserved for the head of person.
  • Ptolemaic Period

    BC- Rosetta Stone Carved
    CleopatraVII died Oldest Greek translation of the bible (Septuagint). The Ptolemies, a dynasty named after its first ruler, Ptolemy I, were Macedonian Greeks who ruled in Egypt during the Hellenistic period. They were successors to the pharaohs of independent Egypt and formed its last dynasty. The Ptolemaic rulers held power jointly with their wives, who were often also their sisters.
  • Old Kingdom

    ( 2649–2150 BC ) was one of the most dynamic periods Egyptian art. During this period, artists learned to show their culture. Creating for the first time images.
  • Ancient Egyptian Art

    is paintings, sculptures and other arts made by civilizationof Ancient Egypt in the lover Nile Valley 3000 BC - 100 AC.
  • Pre Dynastic Period

    is didvided into cultural periods named after the places where a certain type of Egyptian settlement. The Protodynastic period ( 3100-3000 BC ) is a period of time at the end of the Predynastic period, known as Naqada III.
  • Early Dynastic Period

    ( c. 2925–c. 2575 bc) also known as Archaic, Egyptian tradition thought to have immediately follow the unificattion upper and lower Egypt. Until 2686 BC, or the beginning if the Old Kingdom