BRONZE AGE ART

(3300 to 1200 B.C.)

Prepared by: Weena Luz C. Cañeda

Claudine R. Cinco
Aubrey Frame Belle Claridad
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 HOW WAS BRONZE FIRST
DISCOVERED?

TIN COPPER

⬗ Then they realised that if you added tin to

copper it made a harder metal called

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Bronze. Smelting
Characteristics:
⬗ The Bronze Age is characterized by
the use of copper and bronze as the
chief hard materials in the
manufacturing of implements and
weapons.
⬗ • The Bronze Age is the earliest
period for which we have direct
written accounts, since the invention
of writing coincides with its early
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beginnings.
 ⬗ Bronze tools and weapons
are sharper than stone tools.

⬗ Linear B was the

earliest Greek
writing, dating from
1450 BCE, an
adaptation of the
earlier Minoan
Linear A script.
Characteristics:
⬗ Cultures in the Near East and China
developed the first systems of writing.

Cuneiform Writing
Characteristics:
⬗ Burials in the British Isles shifted from the
communal interments of the Neolithic Age
to more individual burials in barrows and
cists .

Cist Graves
Bronze Age Arts

Bronze Castings Bronze Sword Blade Ritual Cooking Vessel

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Bronze Age Rock Carvings
also known as petroglyphs
⬗ Rock carvings are found worldwide.

⬗ Rock Carvings were produced in

Caves
⬗ Individual marking are

called “motifs” while

groups are known as “panels.”
Bronze Age Rock Carvings

Petroglyphs in Tanum, Composite photograph of

Sweden (c. 1700–500 BCE).: petroglyphs from Häljesta,
Rock carving with the shape Sweden (c. 1700–500 BCE)
of a flock of birds
⬗ The Bronze Age is marked by
widespread migrations and trade,
especially across Europe and in the
Mediterranean region.

⬗ Egyptian Art
⬗ Sumerian Art
⬗ Persian Art
⬗ Minoan Art and etc.
 EGYPTIAN ART
(3100 to 395 C.E.)

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 Function of Egyptian Art
⬗ glorify the gods
⬗ to assert, propagandize and

preserve the values of the

day.

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 TIMELINE OF ANCIENT EGYPT
⬗ The Early Dynastic Period;
⬗ The Old Kingdom (2680¬2258 BCE);
⬗ The Middle Kingdom (2134-1786 BCE);
⬗ The New Kingdom (1570¬1075 BCE), including the
controversial Amarna Period of King Amenhotep
(Akhenaton) (1350¬1320 BCE)
⬗ Intermediate Period until the Ptolemaic Era(323-30 BCE)
⬗ and the period of Roman rule (30 BCE - 395 CE).

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 Egyptian Artists and Craftsmen
⬗ Egyptian sculptors and painters were not artists in the
modern sense of being a creative individual.

Step Pyramid complex for

King Zoser
Imhotep
(2660-2590 BC)
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 Rules of Painting
 Egyptian civilization was
highly religious.
 Artworks involve the
depiction of many gods
and goddesses

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 Use of Pigments
⬗ Red being the color of power, symbolized life
and victory, as well as anger and fire.
⬗ Green symbolized new life, growth, and
fertility.
⬗ Blue symbolized creation and rebirth.
⬗ Yellow symbolized the eternal, such as the
qualities of the sun and gold
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Use of Pigments
⬗ Yellow was the color of Ra and of all the pharaohs, which is
why the sarcophagi and funeral masks were made of gold to
symbolize the everlasting and eternal pharaoh who was now a
god.
⬗ White was the color of purity, symbolizing all things sacred,
and was typically used in religious objects and tools used by
the priests.
⬗ Black was the color of death and represented the underworld
and the night.
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 Egyptian Arts And The Afterlife
⬗ Nearly all of Ancient
Egypt's surviving
paintings were
discovered in tombs
of the pharaohs or
high governmental
officials, and portrays
scenes of the afterlife
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 • Egyptian sculpture was highly
symbolic and for most of Egyptian
history was not intended to be
naturalistic or realistic.

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Fayum Mummy Portrait Egyptian faience
(1st Century BCE) Louvre. 1500 BCE
Encaustic paint on board. One of
the few surviving paintings of
Egyptian antiquity.
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 Architecture: Pyramid Tombs and
Temples
⬗ Egyptian architecture is world
famous for its unique
underground tomb design,
exemplified by the Egyptian
Pyramids at Giza, along with its
tomb artworks (mummy paintings,
sculptures, ceramics and precious
metalwork) and Sphinx.
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 The Great Sphinx of Giza The Great Pyramid of Giza
Built c.2450 BCE. One of the great
examples of ancient art from the
Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt.

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 Hypostyle Hall, Karnak temple,
Luxor. (Begun 16th century BCE)
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