The Puzzle of Egyptian Art. Dismembering an Iconography to Understand it.
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...
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THE DISTRIBUTION OF IMAGES IN EGYPTIAN ART. THE CLAY COFFIN OF MEN.
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 ...
Polychromy in Ancient Egyptian Art.
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...
The High Rank of Artist in Ancient Egypt
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...
Common Aspects in the Art of Ancient Egypt.
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...
The Egyptian Artist, the Master.
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...
Duality in Egyptian Art. Duality as a Conception of Egypt.
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...
Uniformity in Egyptian Art. The Cyclic Nature of Ancient Egypt.
Plastic manifestations in Egyptian art remain almost unchanged for more than three millennia. Why? Art is something intimately linked with human feeling, with i...
Reading the Egyptian Art (I).
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 ...
The Purpose of Art in Ancient Egypt. II
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...
The Purpose of Art in Ancient Egypt. Part I.
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 ...
A challenge in the Art of Ancient Egypt: Osirian-Solar Iconography.
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...