ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF

EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION
 SCULPTURE  The pharaohs commissioned
rigid monumental statues to
glorify themselves while they
were still alive.

 The Egyptian were never able

to make free standing
human sculptures. Either the
figures were sitting down or
coming out of a wall.

   Although ,sculptures were

Ramses II Colossal statue characterized by clenched fists,
rigid arms on the sides, two feet
 Large sculptures were usually firmly on the ground with the
carved from sandstone. left foot forward.
  The statue was carved from a
single piece of limestone, and
pigment residue suggests that
the entire Great Sphinx was
painted.

The Great Sphinx at Giza, Egypt .  It is the oldest known

monumental sculpture in Egypt
 The Great Sphinx is among the and is commonly believed to have
world’s largest sculptures, been designed, sculpted, and
measuring some 240 feet long constructed by ancient Egyptians
and 66 feet high.  of the old Kingdom during the
reign of the pharaoh Khafre.
 It features a lion’s body and a
human head adorned with a
royal headdress. 
 Small and mid-size sculptures
were made from a variety of
materials including painted
wood, limestone, Egyptian
alabaster , mottled rose granite,
black basalt, roseate quartzite,
graywacker , clay, schist, ceramic,
bronze and other materials.

Amenemhet III, granite statue from

Bubastis.

Khafre, detail of a statue with the god

Horus in the shape of a falcon.
 gold funerary mask of Tutankhamun
Nefertiti, painted limestone
bust, c. 1350 BCE.

Architecture
The Great Pyramid of Giza
  It is erected on a rocky plateau
on the west bank of the Nile
River   almost completely gone) and
 In ancient times they were
included among the Seven
Wonders of the World .
 The Great Pyramid, it is the
largest of the three, the length
of each side at the base
averaging 755.75 feet and its
original height being 481.4 feet .
 The middle pyramid was built
for Khafre and The
southernmost and last pyramid
to be built was that
of Menkaure.
 The Great Pyramid’s core is
made of yellowish limestone
blocks, the outer casing (now
the inner passages are of finer
light-coloured limestone, and
the interior burial chamber is
built of huge blocks of granite
Cross section of the interior of the Great Pyramid of Khufu
 The grand gallery of ,The Great
Pyramid.

 The Grand Gallery, a seven

levelled, elaborate corbelled vault
forming the upper half of the
Ascending Passage leading to the
King's Chamber. 
Temple Architecture

Kanark temple complex

Luxor temple complex
 Entrance to the Nubian cliff temple of
Ramses II at Abu Simbel,
Egypt, c. 1250 BCE

Great Temple of Amon

Hypostyle (pillared) hall in the Great
Temple of Amon at Karnak, Egypt.
 Painting

Scene from the Egyptian Book of the Dead.

 ancient Egyptian boatbuilding scene
Boatbuilding scene, painted limestone relief from Thebes,
Egypt, c. 664–634 BCE
The Geese of medium
Egyptian dancing, detail from a
tomb painting 
 Reference
 https://www.britannica.com/
art/Egyptian-art
 http://factsanddetails.com/
 http://www.ancient-wisdom.
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