1. SCULPTURE AND RELIGIOUS ART EGYPTIAN ART

2. Ancient Egyptian art must be viewed from the standpoint of the ancient Egyptians to understand it.

3. Painted sunk relief of the king being embraced by a goddess. Tomb of Amenherkhepshef

4. These images, whether statues or relief, were designed to benefit a divine or deceased recipient.

5. Three-dimensional representations, while being quite formal, also aimed to reproduce the real-world……

6. Egyptian artists embraced the two-dimensional surface

7. Each object or element in a scene was rendered from its most recognizable angle and these were then grouped together to create the whole. Chaotic fighting scene on a painted box from the tomb of Tutankhamen in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo (New Kingdom).

8. Text accompanied almost all images. Hieroglyphs were often rendered as tiny works of art in themselves Highly detailed raised relief hieroglyphs on the White Chapel of Senusret I at Karnak (Middle Kingdom).