Jackielyn krystyl Nihama C.

Bana AB-PS 1 October 2, 2010

Humanities ( Saturday / 12:00-3:00 pm) - Dr. loida suarez

WESTERN ART PERIOD : RIVER CIVILIZATION & EGYPTIAN art

PERIOD CHARACTERISTICS FACTORS THAT REPRESENTATIVE ARTIST/ MAKER/
OF A BROUGHT WORKS INVENTOR
PARTICULAR STYLE THEM ABOUT
RIVER CIVILIZATION
1. 34th century BCE - the first writing system Cuneiform The Phoenicians
in the world
2. 1790 BC - the first code of law Code of Hammurabi King Hammurabi
with about 280 laws
3. 1250 BC A kind of a ziggurat - the highest ziggurat ever Tower of Babel King Untash-Napirisha
built
EGYPTIAN ART
1. 27th century BC A kind of step pyramid - considered the first of Step pyramid of Djoser Official Imhotep
the pyramids
2. Pyramids - where the pharaoh’s Great pyramid of Giza Egyptian Pharaoh
body and treasures are ( 2560 BC ) Khufu
buried
Pyramid of Khafre ( 18th Pharaoh Khafre
dynasty )
3. Temples - where Egyptians fully Temples of Luxor and Pharaoh Luxor ;
expressed their visual Karnak (1400 B.C.E. ; Pharaoh Karnak -
arts 1351 BC ), respectively respectively
- the use of post and lintel
system
- columns are in the motif
of papyrus and lotus
Temple of Hatshepsut Queen Hatshepsut
(1473 BC )