enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of Egyptian artists - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Egyptian_artists

    Daria Gamsaragan (1907–1986), Egyptian-born Armenian sculptor, novelist; Hussein El Gebaly (1934–2014), painter; Habib Gorgi (1892–1965), landscape painter; Sherin Guirguis (born 1974), contemporary artist

  3. Portraiture in ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portraiture_in_ancient_Egypt

    When discussing portraiture in ancient Egypt it is important to differentiate between the modern concept of portraiture and its ancient Egyptian counterpart. In Western art, portraiture captures the exact physical resemblance of a person as well as his/her inner qualities. Ancient Egyptian art had religious roots and functions, and therefore ...

  4. Art of ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_ancient_Egypt

    Ancient Egyptian art refers to art produced in ancient Egypt between the 6th millennium BC and the 4th century AD, spanning from Prehistoric Egypt until the Christianization of Roman Egypt. It includes paintings, sculptures, drawings on papyrus, faience, jewelry, ivories, architecture, and other art media. It was a conservative tradition whose ...

  5. Fayum mummy portraits - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayum_mummy_portraits

    Combining Egyptian and Greek pictorial forms or motifs was not restricted to funerary art, however: the public and highly visible portraits of Ptolemaic dynasts and Roman emperors grafted iconography developed for a ruler's Greek or Roman images onto Egyptian statues in the dress and posture of Egyptian kings and queens.

  6. Category : Cultural depictions of ancient Egyptian people

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cultural...

    Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more

  7. Artistic canons of body proportions - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artistic_canons_of_body...

    The figure represents the Roman Emperor Trajan (ruled 98–117 CE) making offerings to Egyptian Gods, Dendera Temple complex, Egypt. [ 1 ] An artistic canon of body proportions (or aesthetic canon of proportion), in the sphere of visual arts , is a formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative ...

  8. The Stonemason Ostracon - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stonemason_Ostracon

    While the obverse has the Stonemason, the reverse tells an entirely different story. A register of hieroglyphs is across the bottom of the ostracon, below a drawing of the snake, Meretseger; apparently, the ostracon was once larger, because a seated person (only the knees visible), but outstretched arms (hands) in adoration, are before the snake goddess Meretseger.

  9. Category:Egyptian artists - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Egyptian_artists

    العربية; Aragonés; Azərbaycanca; Boarisch; Català; Čeština; Cymraeg; الدارجة; Deutsch; Ελληνικά; Español; Esperanto; Euskara; فارسی ...