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Iconopgraphy in the Clay Coffin of Men.
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The Puzzle of Egyptian Art. Dismembering an Iconography to Understand it.

Posted on 27/12/2021 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

As we have seen in a previous post, the iconography of this coffin contains traditional images of Egyptian art to guarantee the resurrection of the deceased. In...

Clay coffin of Men of Men (After Petrie 1906, pl. XIV).
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THE DISTRIBUTION OF IMAGES IN EGYPTIAN ART. THE CLAY COFFIN OF MEN.

Posted on 26/11/2021 by mrvaldesogo / 1 Comment

Images in Egyptian art were much more than just designs, specially in funerary sphere. They were a tool for achieving a goal and their effectiveness was out of ...

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The Iconography in a Clay Coffin of Ancient Egypt. A Guarantee of Resurrection.

Posted on 29/10/2021 by mrvaldesogo / 1 Comment

Coffins in Ancient Egypt were not made just in wood, but also in ceramic. Although these kind of coffins are much more common in the Middle East, there are some...

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Polychromy in Ancient Egyptian Art.

Posted on 25/11/2020 by mrvaldesogo / 2 Comments

Colour is a very important element in aesthetics, because by itself it provokes immediate emotions. A colour can determine a state of mind, predispose us to som...

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The High Rank of Artist in Ancient Egypt

Posted on 04/10/2020 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

The artist in Ancient Egypt was part of the elite and worked very close to the Court. But his importance did not come from his proximity to the Royal House. Let...

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Common Aspects in the Art of Ancient Egypt.

Posted on 15/03/2020 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

Official or private, formal or informal, the art of ancient Egypt had some characteristics in its production. These features formed a common denominator and hel...

Senet Game inscribed for Amenhotep III
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The Senet Game and its Decoration.

Posted on 27/11/2019 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

The Senet game in the funerary sphere was a path to eternity. The deceased played alone this “countdown” to the eternal life. To arrive to the last ...

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The Senet Game. A Path to Eternity in Ancient Egypt.

Posted on 15/11/2019 by mrvaldesogo / 2 Comments

The senet in Ancient Egypt was an enterteinment board game, but in the funerary sphere it was also a way of reaching the eternity.

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The Egyptian Artist, the Master.

Posted on 28/01/2019 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

To understand the figure of the Egyptian artist it is convenient to differentiate art and craft in ancient Egyptian art. Ancient Egyptians just had the word hem...

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Duality in Egyptian Art. Duality as a Conception of Egypt.

Posted on 16/01/2019 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

The idea of duality referred to good and evil confronted and linked. And it also meant two halves, which formed a unity. Duality is Egypt. Egypt itself evoked a...

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Duality in Egyptian Art. Duality in Egyptian Landscape.

Posted on 14/01/2019 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

In the ideological thinking of Ancient Egypt, duality played a crucial role. The equilibrium principle could not exist without the imbalance; and in front of th...

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Pharaoh and Uniformity in Egyptian Art.

Posted on 12/03/2018 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

The uniformity of Egyptian Art had also political basis. Pharaoh and Uniformity in Egyptian Art. In the state sphere, the Egyptian society required a balance, w...

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Uniformity in Egyptian Art. The Cyclic Nature of Ancient Egypt.

Posted on 05/02/2018 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

Plastic manifestations in Egyptian art remain almost unchanged for more than three millennia. Why? Art is something intimately linked with human feeling, with i...

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Reading the Egyptian Art (I).

Posted on 15/01/2018 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

Egyptian art had a magical-functional purpose and did not take into consideration the figure of the spectator. For that reason, we cannot consider Egyptian art ...

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The Purpose of Art in Ancient Egypt. II

Posted on 16/11/2017 by mrvaldesogo / 1 Comment

The image in Ancient Egypt had a power in itself. Why? Because in addition to evoking a reality, they made it arise. In Ancient Egypt everything that was depict...

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The Purpose of Art in Ancient Egypt. Part I.

Posted on 15/11/2017 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

It is necessary to know the physical space in which an ancient Egyptian plastic production is located in order to analyse it. Reliefs, paintings and statues of ...

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SUPERPOSITION IN ANCIENT EGYPT. ISIS AND NEPHTHYS OVERLAPED.

Posted on 22/02/2016 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

The artists of Ancient Egypt had a particular conception of perspective, which affected in the way they depicted groups of living beings and amounts of things. ...

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Young Girls with Common Mourners in Ancient Egypt.

Posted on 19/03/2015 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

Tha artist in Ancient Egypt followed the rule of depicting children with the side lock of hair. However, this archetype so common in the Old and Middle Kingdom,...

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A challenge in the Art of Ancient Egypt: Osirian-Solar Iconography.

Posted on 19/01/2015 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

One of the main challenges for priests and artists in Ancient Egypt were to combine the osirian and solar cosmogonies in the funerary literature and iconography...

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