Ancient Art

"between the 6th millennium BC and the 4th century AD"

"It includes paintings, sculptures, drawings on papyrus, faience, jewelry, ivories, architecture, and other art media."

"It was a conservative tradition whose style changed very little over time."

"Much of the surviving examples comes from tombs and monuments."

"...giving insight into the ancient Egyptian afterlife beliefs."

"The ancient Egyptian language had no word for 'art'."

"Artworks served an essentially functional purpose that was bound with religion and ideology."

"To render a subject in art was to give it permanence."

"Ancient Egyptian art portrayed an idealized, unrealistic view of the world."

"There was no significant tradition of individual artistic expression."

"Art served a wider and cosmic purpose of maintaining order (Ma'at)."

"spanning from Prehistoric Egypt until the Christianization of Roman Egypt."

"drawings on papyrus"

"giving insight into the ancient Egyptian afterlife beliefs"

"tombs and monuments"

"bound with religion and ideology"

"portrayed an idealized, unrealistic view of the world"

"To give it permanence."

"no significant tradition of individual artistic expression"

"maintaining order (Ma'at)"