The fascinating of the ancient art // Egypt

The civilization of the ancient Egypt developed to shore of the Nile, for his his fertile grounds between extensive deserts. The Egyptians cultivated the grounds covered by the slime that the same river deposits in his rises, which they created a fluvial civilization of base agrarian, which achieved important technical advances developed one prepared religious conceptions and produced a few artistic declarations of big originality, of this agrarian origin the Egyptian art inherited the influences of the geometry and the calculation, of such a way the use of vegetable motives with the presence of the same Nile, which paid the credence in the eternity of further away.

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The Egyptian architecture was of funeral and religious character, which was concebida as the material declaration of his set of credence, the most apparent characteristics of these constructions were the geometric forms and his colossal proportions, since a contribution to the architectural aspects is necessary to emphasize the use of big ashlars of stones, perfectly prepared thanks to a careful height, more appropriate than the adobe to obtain regular forms. The Egyptians introduced also the use of big columns, which were fulfilling a double function of support and decorative, the arch adintelado that allow to cover the buildings with flat roofs, with these elements they created an architectural based style on line horizontal, vertical in a disposition in diagonal, when it was necessary to increase the height, as the case of the pyramids, the beauty of these constructions they reside in the mathematical reasons of the proportions.

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The Egyptian astronomy is almost so ancient as the proper civilization in the country of the Pharaohs, this way for example, we are roofs covered with stars in multiple places of the country, from the interiors of the last pyramids of the ancient kingdom even in graves of the period saíta, happening for some graves of the Vale of the Kings in which the whole roof is covered of stars, which must make us think that the sky must be the regarding one forcing inside the culture faraónica.

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The credence in the life of ultragrave and to the need to preserve the deceased body, like cockpit of the soul for the eternity, they led the ancient Egyptians to embalming the corpses and to granting an exceptional importance to the graves of the kings and the big dignitaries, as his place of eternal rest. The most ancient form of these graves is the mastaba, a simple hillock of quadrangular form or of truncated pyramid, with a chapel in the interior and the sepulchral camera excavated to big depth under the soil, which was communicated by a well, the mastabas were used to bury the first Pharaohs, priests and noblemen.

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The evolution of the real Egyptian graves culminated during the ancient empire, under the dynasty the IVth, of this epoch they date the pyramids of Gizeh, constructed by the Pharaohs Mikerinos, Kefrén and Keops, who erected the most colossal monuments of the Egyptian architecture. During the new empire founded by the dynasty the XVIIIth, of Pharaohs tebanos, which they expelled the invaders hicsos, supported the construction d funeral temples, but the Pharaohs imperialist ordered to constitute big temples of Luxor, Karnalk and Abu Simbel.

The Egyptian sculpture was in most cases of religious and funeral character, from what he attended to exaggerating the idealization and the hieratismo of the personages, the noble stones were: alabaster, granite, diorita and the metal, with the finished polychrome one, they were used in the statues of the gods and the Pharaohs conceived to be seen of fronts. In the sculptures of the personages of minor status there was used simpler matter, like the wood.

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Up to the average empire the painting was watered to a secondary place, on the other hand from then he acquired a big relevancy especially in the decoration of the hipogeos of the Vale of the kings, as the sculpture the pictorial representations, they were submitted to a series of inalterable conventions. The effects of perspective and depth the figures get over in the same plane, the authors of these paintings used the color ocher, red, blue, as the beetling ones, with naturalistic criteria, where they took shape with rich detail the daily scenes as the historical event and the unusual happiness in the whole Egyptian art.

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Art and society of the ancient Egypt - Page 110 Miguel Ángel Molinero, ‎Miguel Ángel Molinero Polo, ‎Domingo Alone Antequera - 2000.