Art History

Art History-Early Civilization
Painting The Egyptians
Egyptian style: from 3100 BCThe first known human civilization is Egypt with a high-art style. This art style follows a strange habit but an awesome, they are very consistent, which is where the feet and the head of each figure is depicted from the side, while the body, shoulders, arms and eyes depicted from the front. This art style suggests that the artist at that time able to paint the subject with a easiest point of view. This is an art style that is easy and is used in painting or sculpture.
Paintings on Egyptian tombs and temples usually depict events that will be experienced during the journey of the dead into the next world. Practical purpose of this painting is to provide details in the sacred journey after death, in the form of pictures and hieroglyphs. In the great temple of Ramses II at Thebes, for example, one painting shows Queen Nefertari, his life is taken gently by the goddess Isis. The inscription mentions the words issued by Isis: "Come to the Great Queen Nefertari, beloved of Mut, without sin. I'll show you a place in the world of the sacred. "
Similar paintings are also many that are found buried in a papyrus manuscript known as the Death Note - introduced in the New Kingdom from the 16th century BC

Minoan wall paintings
The Minoan Art: 1600 BCEgyptian painting skills mostly made in the tombs and temples, while in the northern Aegean civilizations of the Mediterranean make the most of the painting room of the house of the rich and respectable.
A wall painting dating from 1600 BC in a palace at Knossos, Crete, showing the relationship of the bull cult, described the two bulls who are preparing for a fight.
The island of Thera, at the time it is a form of development of the colony Crete. In about 1525 BC, the island was buried under volcanic ash caused by volcanic eruptions local. Archaeological excavations on the island (which is also referred to as the island of Santorin) managed to find an amazing room, which once occupied the Thera-rich population of more than 3500 years ago. This room is decorated with frescoes luxury (murals). One room is decorated with paintings of the mountain, which was then very familiar in Chinese painting. Minoan tradition introduces landscape as a subject of art.Related Information:Art History - The GreeksHISTORY-Painting Wall Painting (Mural)Art History-Prehistoric PeriodHow to Hold Brush Watercolour?Portrait Painting

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