ESSAY #3a ESSAY TITLE: This and That. redo.

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The Great temple of Amin at Karnak-middle kingdom-12th-22nd Dynasties) 

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Romans Pantheon temple-126 AD)

ESSAY #3a 

ESSAY TITLE: This and That 

QUESTION: How are Egyptian, Greek and Roman art and architecture both interconnected and yet independent and; how did they collectively or independently affect the development of art in the Early Christian period?

Part one:

Summary: my experience answering this question is to have a understanding about culture and how each share similarities and difference which help impact a new art development in the early Christian period.

Reason: I believe the reason for this question is to understand how each culture are the same and are different from one another.

Purpose: I believe the purpose Mr. Fortier gave us this question was to make us students understand how there are similarities and difference in art and how that can make an impact alone to change history.

Direction: my direction for this question was to try to answer and understands the similarities and difference between each country.

Impression: what I received from answering this question was a new look in Egyptian, Greek and Roman art.

Part two : Answer:

There are many connections between the Egyptians, Greek and Rome, such as managing to tell a story in their art work. The sculpture “Athena Attacking the Giants” tells a story of an epic battle between the Godsand the Giants where the Greek goddess Athena grabbed the hair of a male winged monster known as Alkyoneos a son of the earth goddess who was being forced down on his knees as his mother begged Athena to release him (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren,152).

  “Akhenaten and his family” is a Egyptian art that explains how Akhenaten and Queen Neferititi received a royal blessing of Aten. The royal couple received the blessings of the Aten who uses the rays to penetrate the open pavilion to offer ankhs through their nose giving them the “breath of life” (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren,71). Just like the Greek and the Egyptians, Rome also held stories with in their walls. Marilyn Stokstad Micheal, page.195 showed the lower part of the Column of

 Trajan showing the story of a scene of the Trajan army crossing the Danube river, (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren, 195). Each century tells a different story about heir Gods; however, the similarities between each century are how their God is portrayed. There are similarities between the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans art culture.  One similarity is the way the sculpture is positioned.  Greek sculptures Navysos Kouros and Peplos Kore have the same position as the Egyptian “MenKaure and a Queen” Each has one of their legs in front and both hands curled up in a fist. They both seem to be very stiff, but a large difference between the two is how Anavysos Kouros and Peplos Kore have a much warmer feeling with their facial expressions than Menkaure and his Queen do.(Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren, 59,166).

Egyptian art has unrealistic designs of human sculpture, The Queen Tily face does not seem as realistic compared to the Roman sculpture “Middle-aged Flavian Woman.” The Queen Tily lacks realism compared to a more detailed face of the middle-aged Flavian woman holds. The Flavian women hold a much more detail with musical aging and expression compared to Queen Tyle. (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren, 72,191)

‘The Great temple of Amin at Karnak” is sustained by a long pole called a shaft. (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren, 67). The Romans Pantheon temple also has a similar shaft design including the Greek temple of Aphaea  (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren, 111).

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maler_der_Grabkammer_der_Nefertari_001.jpgMaler der Grabkammerder Nefertari-artist uknown- 1298-1235 BCE)

  

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo1.JPG-artistunknown-secondcentury)

 

( http:Mosaic of Sol Invictus)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ChristAsSol.jpg - artist unknown -Early pre-4th century 

The Early Christian period borrowed artistic traits from Egyptians, Greek and Rome by using the Halo as a religious icon that represent glow and purity.  Halos started to appear in Egyptian art by the art work of “RA with solar disc, before 1235 BC”, which shows how Ra the sun god has a halo on his head.  “The halo represents an aura or glow of sanctity which was conventionally drawn encircling the head. It first appeared in the culture of Hellenistic Greece and Rome, possibly related to theZoroastrian hvarena - "glory" or "divine lustre" - which marked the Persian kings, and may have been imported with Mithraism. Roman paintings have largely disappeared, save some fresco decorations, the haloed figure remains fresh in Roman mosaics. In a 2nd century AD Roman floor mosaic preserved at Bardo, Tunisia,^[15] a haloed Poseidon appears in his chariot drawn by hippocamps. The triton and nereid who accompany the sea-god are not haloed.”(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(religious_iconography) it is not until the 4^thcentury was the halo being used to represent Jesus and his divine nature and ever since then it has only been used to represent Jesus. Even though Egyptians, Roman and the Greek appear different they are more identical then we expected them to be.