Egyptian
3000 - 323 BC

Click here to Download Reading Packet with Activities
Each activity is worth points & will be graded.

Significance/Theme: Death/Life after Death 

 

Art & Culture:

 

Advanced Civilization

• Created calendar (& Dynasties)

• Irrigation

• Pyramids/Temples

• Astrology

• Hieroglyphs

• Columns - Papyrus

• Embalming & many Medical Advancements

Style: 

 

Men - 

• Loincloth, triangular diapers with strings to tie around waist

• Outer or under garment

• Sole garment of laborers

• Apron- sometimes worn alone

• Wrapped Skirt- common to all Egyptian times

• Early Kingdom- Knee length or shorter

• Middle Kingdom- Elongated, sometimes to ankle

• Shorter versions for workers, soldiers or hunters

• Double skirt starts, first layer opaque & second sheer

• New Kingdom- Pleated, some shorter & tighter, long skirts more full, large decorated panels at front of some

• Animal Skins- worn across shoulders, fastened skins lion/leopard, Reserved for most powerful kings & priests

• Later garments painted to look like skins, ei: spot of leopard

• Cape-like Garment- worn in middle &new kingdom

• Short Fabric Cape- fastened in front

• Corselet- sleeveless form of armor

• Strapless or suspended by small straps at shoulder

• Wide Necklace- circles of precious stones worn alone, over linen gown, over short cape, or with corselet

• Straps- worn around upper body usually only men (some female dancers or acrobats too) to prevent perspiration from running down body

• Tunic- New Kingdom got from Near East (expansion of Egyptian Empire westward), Similar to Mesopotamian, With or without sleeves, often sheer almost transparent linen

• Artists show loin cloth under or skirts wrapped over tunics

 

Women - 

• Skirts on lower class women at work, slaves & dancing girls depicted without clothes or with small strip covering genitals & held up with narrow waist band

• Sheath Dress- most common garment for women of all classes, Close fitting tube of fabric beginning above or below breasts & ending at lower calf or ankle

• Bead Net Dress- found in tombs, elaborately decorated techniques, Could have been worn over wrapped dress

• Pleated & Draped, Wrapped Long Dress- women’s robes were wrapped differently then men’s

• Tunic- women like men wore fitted tunics, often worn by lower economical class women, such as musicians

• V-Necked Dresses- with or without sleeves, pleated or plain, very common, from Old kingdom onward

• Shawls & Cloaks- similar types as men

• Sashes- helped to hold lengths of fabric in place, Both men & women, but men more often, Made of rope, plain weave linen, sometimes with fringes or tassels

Hair & Accessories - 

• Men were usually clean shaven, beard was symbol of maturity & authority

• Beards were worn not only by adult male rulers, but also by young kings & even Queen Hatshepsut

• Some men & women though less common shaved their heads

• Wigs- worn over shaved head or hair, shape & length varied from period to period

• More expensive- made of human hair, others cheaper made of wool, flax, palm fiber or felt

• Most black in color, some blue, brown, or white, Style ranged form simple to complex braiding, curls, or twists

• Footwear- sandals were only worn by high status people, others were barefoot

• Jewelry- often main source of color in New Kingdom

• Collars- wide jewelry collars covering most of chest, with counter weight in back to balance, evident in all kingdoms

• Neck Ornaments- charms worn around neck to ward of evil

• Diadems or Fillets- placed on the head, some held flowers, others copied flowers in metal & polished stones

• Armlets, Bracelets, Anklets- all worn though only in New Kingdom were they all worn together

• Belts & Decorated Aprons- worn over garments, belts & decorated aprons provided color to plain clothes made of linen, were an integral part of costume

• Cosmetics- both men & women decorated their eyes, skin & lips

• Red ochre pigment in a base of fat or gum resin for lips

• Finger & toe nails were polished & buffed

• Henna, a reddish dye, was also used to color nails

• Scented ointments were also applied to body

• Eye Paint- in the Old Kingdom green eye paint predominated, in the middle both green & black paints were used, by the New Kingdom black kohl (made of sulfide lead) replaced green

Children - 

• According to paintings of royalty & wealthy families, & by the numerous toys found in tombs, children were regarded with interest & warm affection

• Education for boys- the very rich had private tutors, less affluent went to temple schools

• Children of lower classes were taught trade of craft, sons of peasants labored in fields with their families

 

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~ EGYPTIAN PROJECT ~
Project Sheet PDF

Competency: 
Identify & describe major works in Art History & Illustrate using variety of Inking Pens

Objective: 
Understand the artistic trends of the Egyptian era and illustrate using the visual themes of that time.

Project: 
Given your creatively designed collage of 3 or more images that were key to the Egyptian era and 11x14” smooth Bristol Board, ink your illustration showing a variety of inking techniques to the criteria as detailed in PDF above.
• Live space of at least 9x12"
• Use creative composition
• One of the images must be relevant to the fashion of the time
• Try different techniques in Ink
• Do NOT use white-out!

Reading & MAX Strategy:
Utilizing "Two Truths & a Lie" as a reading strategy, we will be implementing the Egyptian Packet with Activities, Sample Inking Techniques, Movie & Web Sources

• 4,000 - 1,000BC

• North Africa - Sphinx, known to all

• Pharaoh - King, God on Earth

• Burial ceremonies

Ink Techniques of Hatching, Cross Hatching & Pointillism