VIS2315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Votive Offering, Narmer, Diorite
13 Apr 2022
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Focus on how art was used to enhance political and religious power and also the links between art, religion, judgement and death. Egyptian designs were made to show frontally so that they could face the ritual being performed before them. Votive palette of king narmer, pre-dynastic, egypt, 3000-2920 bce, slate, 64cm. Here we see the use of registers to compartmentalise information the uni cation of the upper and lower egypt is symbolically represented by narmer wearing. 2 crowns, narmer symbolically depicted as a bull destroying a building, intertwined necks of lionesses. The composite gures on the palette of narmer can be regarded as a blueprint for what became a stylistic convention for gure representation that lasted almost 2500 years. Menkaure and a queen from gizeh, egypt old kingdom, 2490-2472 b. c. e. Akhenaten and nefertiti and children, temple of amen ra, karnak, 1353-1335 bce. Queen nefertiti, tell el-armana, 1353-1335 bce, painted limestone with plaster.
