Ancient Egyptian art

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Ancient Egyptian art is the highly stylized and symbolic visual tradition of ancient Egypt, encompassing monumental architecture, sculpture, painting, and decorative arts created primarily to serve religious, funerary, and royal purposes.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient art
art movement
cultural tradition
visual art
appliesToJurisdiction Kingdom of Egypt
countryOfOrigin Ancient Egypt
linked to: Pharaonic Egypt
endTime c. 30 BCE
followedBy Greco-Roman Egyptian art
linked to: Greco-Roman art
follows Predynastic Egyptian art
linked to: Predynastic Egypt
hasCanonicalExample Abu Simbel temple reliefs
linked to: Abu Simbel temples

Book of the Dead papyri
linked to: Book of the Dead

Coffin Texts decoration
linked to: Coffin Texts

Great Sphinx of Giza
Karnak temple reliefs
Luxor temple statues
linked to: Obelisk of Luxor

Nefertiti Bust
Pyramid Texts inscriptions
linked to: Pyramid Texts

Tutankhamun funerary mask
Valley of the Kings tomb paintings
linked to: Valley of the Kings

statues of Khafre
tomb of Nebamun paintings
hasCharacteristic canon of proportions
composite view of the human figure
conservatism
frontalism
hierarchical scale
highly stylized
monumentality
polychromy
symbolic
use of hieroglyphs as design elements
use of registers
hasGoal ensure afterlife for the deceased
glorify the pharaoh
honor the gods
maintain maʿat
hasPart Amarna art
Book of the Dead vignettes
Egyptian architecture
Egyptian decorative arts
Egyptian painting
Egyptian sculpture
Late Period art
Middle Kingdom art
New Kingdom art
Old Kingdom art
canopic jar decoration
coffin painting
colossal statues
faience objects
funerary masks
hieroglyphic inscriptions
jewelry
obelisk decoration
papyrus illustrations
pyramid complexes
relief sculpture
sarcophagi decoration
statues of pharaohs
stelae
temple reliefs
tomb painting
wall reliefs
hasStyle Amarna style
Middle Kingdom style
New Kingdom style
Old Kingdom style
Saite revival style
influenced Art Deco
Classical Greek art
Kushite art
Nubian art
modern Egyptian art
influencedBy Predynastic cultures of Egypt
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Nile Valley
mainSubject Egyptian gods
afterlife
cosmic order
funerary beliefs
pharaoh
religion in ancient Egypt
royal power
practicedBy Egyptian artisans
royal workshops
temple workshops
startTime c. 3100 BCE
typicalColor black
blue
green
red ochre
white
yellow ochre
typicalMaterial alabaster
faience
gold
granite
limestone
papyrus
pigments
sandstone
wood
use commemoration
cult statues
funerary purposes
religious purposes
ritual objects
royal propaganda
temple decoration
tomb decoration
votive offerings

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Great Sphinx of Giza artStyle Ancient Egyptian art
Ancient Egyptian art hasPart Egyptian painting
linked to: Ancient Egyptian art
Ancient Egyptian art hasPart Amarna art
linked to: Ancient Egyptian art
Ancient Egyptian art hasPart Old Kingdom art
linked to: Ancient Egyptian art
Ancient Egyptian art hasStyle Amarna style
linked to: Ancient Egyptian art
Wadi es-Sebua hasArtStyle New Kingdom Egyptian reliefs
linked to: Ancient Egyptian art
Hellenistic art influencedBy Egyptian art
linked to: Ancient Egyptian art
Saite artistic revival influencedBy Old Kingdom art
linked to: Ancient Egyptian art
Saite artistic revival influencedBy Middle Kingdom art
linked to: Ancient Egyptian art
Tomb of Horemheb (Saqqara) artStyle New Kingdom relief style
linked to: Ancient Egyptian art
Meroitic art influencedBy Egyptian art
linked to: Ancient Egyptian art
Aaron Douglas influencedBy Egyptian art
linked to: Ancient Egyptian art
Orientalizing period influencedBy Egyptian art
linked to: Ancient Egyptian art