Art of Ancient Egypt Pt. 1

Between the Middle and New Kingdoms a foreign power called the Hyksos from Mesopotamia invaded and conquered parts of Egypt. This was resolved in the 16th c. BCE when the 17th and 18th Dynasties rose up and conquered their invaders. During the New Kingdom Egypt reached its height in terms of power and size.
One of the major changes to architecture during the New Kingdom was the abandonment of the use of pyramids for burial and the introduction of underground tombs to house the dead. Temple were still important for the worship of the god-king Pharaohs, so a new kind of temple called Mortuary Temples took the place of the pyramids as symbols of the pharaoh's divine power. The most radical change in Egyptian culture and art, also, arose during the New Kingdom. A Pharaoh called Akhenaten took the throne of Egypt and intorduced a new, monotheistic religion to the region. This deep and significant shift in religious and cultural practice shook Egyptian culture to it's core. And although the changes were short lived and ended with Akhenaten's rule, the art left behind from this era called the Amarna period demonstrates that Egyptian artists were allowed to break away from the norms of traditions if allowed to do so.
VOCABULARY LIST
This is a list of important vocabulary words for. The definition of many of these words can be found in the glossary of your textbook, Gardner's Art through the Ages. Make sure you are familiar with the meaning of all these words by the end of the chapter.
Rosetta stone
Hieroglyph
Heraldic grouping
Ka
Mastaba
Stepped pyramid
Column
Capital
Colonnade
Engaged column
Fresco Seco
Hypostyle
Sunken relief
Diorite
Pylon Temple
Clerestory
Canopic Jar
Amarna Period
Ashlar masonry
Nemes
Uraeus (Cobra) - Symbol of Lower Egypt
Vulture - Symbol Upper Egypt
Ashlar

[@jmanfro1]

I took an art history class in college because is was required for a visual art major and even though I dropped out I still love studying ancient civilizations art.

[@WeebInvestments69]

Great informative video, thank you 😊🙏

[@TomMorrison-cc6xw]

Nitpicking, & something LOTS of folks get wrong, but the image on the Narmer Pallet is BES, NOT HATHOR. Both had bovine depictions, but ears & horns on Bes are different than those on Hathor.

[@phillipleboa5251]

WONDERFUL !!! XOXXOXO

[@destinycreativegallery9669]

Hello Prof.

[@RovexHD]

Why were mosaics not prominent in Egyptian art ? Where are the mosaics before Greco-Roman Egypt ?

[@gaynordavenport4722]

Hi Prof .Neal , nice to write to you , if you look carefully to the right fist of Narmer , his right thumb reached to cover his right ring finger , the muscles impossible to do that , so I ask you to imitate the action of his right fist, you can not do it - so in this case we have to solve this problem thank you prof - Sayed

[@MisyeDiVre]

Ancient Egypt should really be described as a Nilotic Empire, rather than Mediterranean.

[@profnealart]

There's certainly an argument to be had there. I label them Mediterranean primarily because the book I teach from throws the major cultures of antiquity adjacent or not far form the Mediterranean in the same unit.

[@Sema-Tawy]

No, Ancient Egypt is definitely more Mediterranean than Nilotic, it shares a lot more culture, civilization with Mediterranean surrounding kingdoms and civilizations like Sumerian and Phoenician rather than the southern black African tribes

[@claudiamanta1943]

13:47 There is no such a thing as superfluous elements in the Ancient Egyptian culture. Those structures were not ‘dummy’ ones.

[@MisyeDiVre]

Ancient Egyptian culture was not anymore "insular" than other, contemporaneous, Nilotic cultures nor could it be understood as an "island"; it shared most of its culture, along with a good chunk of its population (well, the foundational and pre-dynastic population) with the neighboring kingdoms to the south.

[@Sema-Tawy]

What kingdoms 😂 tribes at best

[@AgentZ-1844]

​@@Sema-Tawykingdoms of the south repeatedly invaded Egypt.

[@Sema-Tawy]

@@AgentZ-1844 kingdoms 🤣 what kingdoms, name one king before the 25th dynasty (after Egypt Egyptianized Kush) There was only primitive tribes trying to enter Egypt, not so different than today

[@AgentZ-1844]

@@Sema-Tawy the 25th dinasty isn't just when Egypt further egyptianized kush, it's when kush literally conquered Egypt
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kush

[@Sema-Tawy]

@@AgentZ-1844 Yeah they came and conquered Egypt AFTER Egypt Egyptianised them, that was late towards the end of Ancient Egypt.
I am asking before this dynasty from 1st to 24th dynasty, who were the kings of those KINGDOMS?