DS 421 Study Guide - Megaron, Portico, Tutankhamun
Document Summary
Egyptian 3100 1085 bce: power of nature (sun) pharaoh aligned with the sun, ruler uses design as showing order in society, materials. Wood is scarce, little importing from east. Metals: silver, gold, quartz, agate: housing (residential) Mud brick houses cedar beams for roof or palm leaves. Walled on outside with one main entrance. Family lives in main structure public area in front. Already a distinction between public and private. Back of house is the harem (multiple wives: temples and tombs provide hints to what could be inside. Colonnades based on natural plants forms that open into a bud or flower at the top. Cavetto cornice: the flaring on the roof of the golden shrine. Torus molding: furniture is mobile (was a very personal object) Very well constructed: materials are rare so craftsmanship is precise. 3100 2133 old kingdom: animal legged stool. Anatomically thought out bone structure, muscles. Often on a cylinder to protect carving.
