TOP 6 FAMOUS ART OF EGYPT AND EUROPE

READING IN VISUAL ARTS

MARCH 31, 2023

SANTIAGO, DARLENE KAYE A.

Santiago, Darlene Kaye A.
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Top 6 Famous Arts in Egypt
1. Nefertiti Bust by Thutmose

This bust is one of the first ranking works of Egyptian art

mostly due to the excellent preservation of the color and
the fine modelling of the face. She was found in 1912
during the excavations of the German-Orient-Association
in city of Achet-Aton, today known as Amarna .

The Nefertiti Bust is a painted stucco-coated limestone

bust of Nefertiti, the Great Royal Wife of Egyptian
pharaoh Akhenaten. The work is believed to have been
crafted in 1345 BCE by Thutmose because it was found in
his workshop in Amarna, Egypt. It is one of the most-
copied works of ancient Egypt.

2. Narmer Palette

The Narmer Palette contains some of the earliest

hieroglyphic inscriptions ever found. It is thought to depict
the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under King
Narmer. On one side, the king, wearing the Red Crown of
Lower Egypt, marches in a victory procession.

This object depicts the unification of Upper and Lower

Egypt into the "Kingdom of the Two Lands" under the
divine king. This object is a ceremonial palette used in the
ritual of mixing and applying the King's eye makeup. The
palette is arranged in three easily read registers on the
back and four on the front.

3. Great Sphinx of Giza

The Great Sphinx at Giza, near Cairo, is probably the most

famous sculpture in the world. With a lion's body and a
human head, it represents Ra-Horakhty, a form of the
powerful sun god, and is the incarnation of royal power
and the protector of the temple doors. The Great Sphinx
of Giza is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a
mythical creature with the head of a human, and the body
of a lion. Facing directly from west to east, it stands on the
Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt.
The face of the Sphinx appears to represent the pharaoh
Khafre.
4. Tutankhamun’s mask

The mask of Tutankhamun is a gold funerary mask of the

18th-dynasty ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun.
After being buried for over 3,000 years, it was excavated
by Howard Carter in 1925 from tomb KV62 in the Valley of
the Kings and is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

The death mask is considered one of the masterpieces of

Egyptian art. It originally rested directly on the shoulders
of the mummy inside the innermost gold coffin. It is
constructed of two sheets of gold that were hammered
together and weighs 22.5 pounds (10.23 kg).

5. Khufu Statuette

This statue depicts King Khufu (known to the Greeks as

Cheops), the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Ironically, this small, 7.5‑cm‑tall, statuette is the only
confirmed contemporary three‑dimensional of this king.
When it was first discovered, the head was missing.

The Khufu Statuette or the Ivory figurine of Khufu is an

ancient Egyptian statue. Historically and archaeologically
significant, it was found in 1903 by Sir William Matthew
Flinders Petrie during excavation of Kom el-Sultan in
Abydos, Egypt.

6. Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone, a symbol for different things to

different people, is a dark-colored granodiorite stela
inscribed with the same text in three scripts – Demotic,
hieroglyphic and Greek. In July 1799, the stone was found
in the city of Rosetta (modern el Rashid) by French
soldiers during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. The Stone is
a broken part of a bigger stone slab. It has a message
carved into it, written in three types of writing. It was an
important clue that helped experts learn to read Egyptian
hieroglyphs (Opens in new window) (a writing system that
used pictures as signs).
 Top 6 Most Famous Art in Europe
1. Water Lilies, Claude Monet – Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris

Monet may have created hundreds of iconic paintings in

his lifetime, but few are as celebrated as his Water Lilies
series. These 250 oil paintings depict the changing light
and mood in the artist’s garden, and were the culmination
of his life’s work. The paintings are on display around the
world, but one of the best places to see them in all their
glory is the L’Orangerie Museum in Paris. Water Lilies is a
series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French
Impressionist Claude Monet. The paintings depict his
flower garden at his home in Giverny, and were the main
focus of his artistic production during the last thirty years
of his life.

2. The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli – Uffizi Gallery, Florence

The Birth of Venus is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro

Botticelli, probably executed in the mid 1480s. It depicts
the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth,
when she had emerged from the sea fully-grown. The
painting is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. In
mythology, Venus was conceived when the Titan Cronus
castrated his father, the god Uranus, whose severed
genitals fertilized the sea. Birth of Venus depicts the
moment when, having emerged from the sea in a shell,
Venus lands at Paphos in Cyprus

3. The Scream, Edvard Munch

The Scream is one of the most familiar images in modern

art. It stemmed from a panic attack that Munch suffered
in 1892. He described how it occurred, as he was strolling
along a path outside Kristiania (now Oslo): “The sun was
setting and the clouds turned as red as blood. The Scream
is a composition created by Norwegian artist Edvard
Munch in 1893. The Norwegian name of the piece is Skrik,
and the German title under which it was first exhibited is
Der Schrei der Natur.
4. Guernica, Pablo Picasso

Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist

Pablo Picasso. It is one of his best-known works, regarded
by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-
war painting in history. It is exhibited in the Museo Reina
Sofía in Madrid. Guernica shows the tragedies of war and
the suffering it inflicts upon individuals, particularly
innocent civilians. This work has gained a monumental
status, becoming a perpetual reminder of the tragedies of
war, an anti-war symbol, and an embodiment of peace.

5. The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo

The Creation of Adam is a fresco painting by Italian artist

Michelangelo, which forms part of the Sistine Chapel's
ceiling, painted c. 1508–1512. It illustrates the Biblical
creation narrative from the Book of Genesis in which God
gives life to Adam, the first man. Michelangelo decided to
represent the divine breath of life with God's and Adam's
fingers almost touching each other. This famous gesture
represents the creation of the first man with the Creator's
index finger ready to strike a spark upon contact with
Adam's hand

6. The Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci

The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by Italian

artist Leonardo da Vinci. Considered an archetypal
masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, it has been
described as "the best known, the most visited, the most
written about, the most sung about, the most parodied
work of art in the world “The Mona Lisa is a likely a
portrait of the wife of a Florentine merchant. For some
reason however, the portrait was never delivered to its
patron, and Leonardo kept it with him when he went to
work for Francis I, the King of France. The Mona Lisa's
mysterious smile has inspired many writers, singers, and
painters.