Chapter 3 - Ancient Egyptian Art
Terms
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- egyptology
- the study of ancient Egypt and Egyptian antiquitie, as well as its geography
- sphinx
- a mythological Egyptian beast with a lion body and a human head
- palette
- a stone slab with a circular depression used for preparing makeup
- necropolis
- "city of the dead"a large burial area or cemetary
- fluting
- vertical channeling, roughly semicircular in cross-section, and used principally on columns and pilasters
- nemes
- the linen headdress worn by the pharaoh
- faience
- decorated, glazed earthenware
- pharaoh
- the title of the ancient Egyptian kings
- hieroglyphics
- a system of writing using symbols or pictures
- mastaba
- an ancient Egyptian rectangular brick or stone structure with sloping sides erected over a subterranean tomb chamber connected with the outside by a shaft, an egaged column is a half column attached to a wall
- column
- a verticle, weight-carrying archtectural member, circular in cross-section and consisting of a base, shaft, and capitals
- capital
- the uppermost member of a column, serving as a transition from the shaft to the lintel
- uraeus
- the royal cobra found on the nemes
- canon
- a rule of proportions
- hypostyle hall
- a hall with roof supported by columns
- gold leaf
- gold beaten into an extremely thin sheet used for gilding
- pyramid
- a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb
- conceptual view
- shows all important parts, represents what is know to be true of the subject
- optical view
- how something would actually stand in space, a random view of it