Ancient Egypt 2615-332 B.C.E.: Arts Research Article from World Eras

This Study Guide consists of approximately 38 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Ancient Egypt 2615-332 B.C.E..

Ancient Egypt 2615-332 B.C.E.: Arts Research Article from World Eras

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Evidence for Grids. Egyptian artists drew on a grid that allowed them to control the proportions of figures in two-dimensional relief sculpture and to line up the sides, back, and front of sculpture in the round. Grids are often preserved in unfinished relief sculpture or in paintings where a finished layer of paint has fallen off to reveal the underlying markings. These remains of grids have provided the data to study how Egyptian artists worked.

Guidelines and Grids. In the earliest examples from the Old Kingdom, Egyptian artists used a system of eight horizontal guidelines and one vertical line bisecting the figure through the ear rather than a complete grid. Grids marked eighteen horizontal units for each figure and also fourteen vertical lines spaced at the same distance as the horizontal ones. Thus, the grid formed a series of squares. Grids...

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