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Ancient Egypt - Please Choose
one of the three following
Old-Kingdom
"The Old Kingdom is the first of
the three great periods of Egyptian History, called the Old,
Middle and New Kingdoms, respectively... [The] traditional
division of Kingdoms places Djoser [Zoser] and the Third Dynasty
in the Old Kingdom. It ended with the demise of the Eights
Dynasty around 2134 B.C. During the Old Kingdom, Egyptian
sculptors, painters, and architects codified the modes of
representation and methods of construction that would become the
rule in the land of the Nile for more than two thousand years."
- Gardner's
Art Through The Ages,
11th edition, Vol. I, pp. 50 - 51
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Akhenaton's
Reign "Not long after
Nebamun was laid to rest in his tomb at Thebes, a short but
violent upheaval occurred in Egyptian society and in Egyptian
art - the only major break in the continuity of their long
tradition. In the mid-fourteenth century B.C., the pharaoh
known as Akhenaton (r. 1353 - 1335 B.C.), abandoned the worship
of most of the Egyptian gods in favor of Aton, the universal and
only god, identified with the sun disk. He blotted out the
name of Amen from all inscriptions and even from that of his
father, Amenhotep III. He emptied the great temples,
enraged the priests, and moved his capital downriver from Thebes
to ... Tell-el-Amarna."
- Gardner's
Art Through The Ages,
11th edition, Vol. I, p. 69
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Tut Ank Amon
"The pharaohs who followed
Akhenaton reestablished the cult and priesthood of Amen and
restored the temples and the inscriptions. ... When Akhenaton's
religious revolution was undone, artists, too, soon returned to
the old, conservative manner. ... The legacy
of the Amarna style may be seen, however, in the fabulously rich
art and artifacts found in the largely unplundered tomb of
Tutankhamen (r. 1333 - 1323 B.C.), who was probably Akhenaton's
son by a minor wife. Tutankhamen rules for a decade and
died at age eighteen. The treasures of his tomb ... were
uncovered in 1922. ... Tutankhamen was a very minor figure
in Egyptian history. The public remembers him today solely
because of the chance survival of his tomb's furnishings."
- Gardner's
Art Through The Ages,
11th edition, Vol. I, p. 71
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