IRL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hatshepsut, Basalt, Megaron

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Interior Design
• Course: IRL 100
• Professor: Janna Eggebeen

Document Summary

Spirit of dead, what you"ll do in the afterlife. Egyptian art very stable, little innovation because valued longevity and consistency. Followed established conventions e. g. composite, hierarchal scale, but animals/nature more natural and realistic. People shown in v few stylized postres. Nile annual flood, could irrigate and grow crops. Banks great for agri, good for deploying troops, protect land. King sign of authority = strap on beard, cobra, whisk etc. Resurrectionists: believed afterlife where bodies and stuff would still be there. Tombs v preserved, much art from buirla goods. V stable, periods when north/south egypt were apart. Depression is for kohl: signs of agri, prosperity. Like standard of ur war and peace: extra: first hieroglyph: serekh = area where the royal name is inscribed, conventions: Egyptian art had conventions and individualizations too: canonical art: further convention, grid system for canon of proportions, based on person"s palm, depicted people in most recogniable view, composite not realistic.