A classic example of the Egyptian artistic style. Notice how the face is in profile, but the eye of the god stares out.
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| For nearly 3000 years, from the first dynasties around 3000 B.C.E. to Alexander
the Great's conquest of Egypt in 332 B.C.E., the Egyptians maintained a
particularly distinctive artistic style. They portrayed a wealth of subjects,
including parties, food preparation, farming practices, religious processions,
payment of taxes, pottery making, fishing, embalming of the dead, and even
the pharaoh hunting hippopotami. Interspersed with human beings are representations
of plants that grew along the Nile, cattle and other domesticated animals,
and wild beasts such as crocodiles. |
A classic example of the Egyptian artistic style. Notice how the face is in profile, but the eye of the god stares out. |
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