Comparing Seated Statue Of Memi And Sabu

Fig. 1 Statue of Yuny and Renenutet, ca. 1290–1270 BCE.; Fig. 2 Akhenaten and his Family,18

This sculpture is a depiction of the goddess Bastet in the form of a cat. The base of the sculpture is inscribed with hieroglyphics and bears the cartouche of Psamtek I, a pharaoh of the 26th Dynasty, which dates the statue to approximately 664-610 B.C.E., during Egypt’s Late Period.

2. The Menkaure and a queen sculpture is standing against a wall or post. Its sculpted on black stone. The king is standing stiffly and expressionless with his wife holding him while walks forward. The king and queen step with their left foot forward. His hands are clenched and is wearing only a skirt. He also wears a hat. The sculpture seems smooth. The Metropolitan Kouros sculpture is free standing and is made of a beige colored stone. He is naked with his left foot forward as well. Kouros muscles and body parts are detailed in the sculpture. His hands are clenched and he is emotionless. His hair looks like dread locks.

It is important to first begin with the basics of each piece of artwork. The graywacke statue of Menkaure and a Queen was made between c. 2490-2472 BCE during the Old Kingdom period in Giza, Egypt. Although the artist is unknown, it is understood that the time during which this artwork was made was during the Old Kingdom period, which lasted from c. 2575-2150 BCE. This statue is smaller in height than the average human being, being 51 ½ inches tall, which is a little over four and a quarter feet tall (Stokstad and Cothren: 60). The stone that it is made from is a rocky, rough stone, that took a considerable amount of sanding to get the statue to look as smooth as it is. The second set of statues I will be comparing and contrasting to the Menkaure and Queen are the limestone statues, Anavysos Kouros and the Peplos Kore. Both were made in c. 530 BCE during the Archaic period in Athens, Greece. Similar to Menkaure and a Queen, the Anavysos Kouros and the Peplos Kore do not have a known artist, however it is known that the time period in which the statues were made was during the Archaic Period, which lasted from c. 600-480 BCE. These statues are more life-like in size. The Kouros statue is around the size of a tall male, six feet four inches tall. On the other hand, the Kore statue is smaller in stature, about four foot tall . Both statues were made from carved marble, although some of the other kouros and kore statues that were made were from terra cotta, wood, or limestone

My second piece I want to tell you about is the Sphinx of Amenhotep III. This piece was made sometime between 2000-1000 B.C. The artist from this piece is unknown but it is believed that the Sphinx of Amenhotep III is a model of a temple. It is only about 9 7/8 inches in length, 5 1/4 inches in width and 5 1/4 inches tall. Amenhotep III had many statues completed of him and during that age Amenhotep built many temples and other chapels. By the looks of it, it just looks like a giant doorstopper. But this artifact has great symbolism. The sphinx puts two things together and offers them to the gods, and that would be protective power of the lion with the royal function. It’s a lion’s body but transforms to human arms and hands. It has about

During the Ancient Near Eastern period, one of major artworks that stood out from all the others is the Dedicatory Statues from the Abu Temple. In the Abu Temple many different dedicatory statues were found and they may have been used for religious reasons. These pieces of artwork are thought to be created for their deity or god in order for favors such as good harvests. The figurines could have also been created to depict a person in the family that needed spiritual assistance from the gods.

The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast two sculptures. The Statue of Memi and Sabu, dated back to ca. 2575–2465 B.C., Egyptian; and the Seated Statue of Gudea dated back to 2150–2100 B.C., Neo–Sumerian period.

In this essay, I will attempt to compare and contrast two sculptures, the statue of Gudea, prince of Lagash, c. 2120 BC from the Neo–Sumerian period (The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2015)) and the Egyptian statue of Memi and Sabu. The statue of prince Gudea is a fairly small sculpture about two feet tall and is made out of hard stone diorite. Looking closely, we see a handsome man. His face is idealized in a way his features for instance his eyes, nose and mouth are sculpted in a very stereotypical way that is commonly seen in ancient Greece and Egypt sculptures.

Both sculptures give a few views of how these individuals were looked at. They were gods so the sculptors portrayed them as such and they did it with great skill. We will observe and pick apart these “Gods” doing things that normal humans cannot no do. Such as holding the world on their shoulders or sleeping on a snake with ease. This idea of mythical beings has been around for many years along with their religious beliefs, no one honestly knows if they ever existed but through evidence found, we think otherwise. We think this because the viewer sees one of the "Gods" asleep on a serpent(snake), then the other sculpture is of "Gods" assisting another holding the world (heavens). Two examples of mythical "beings" would be the sculpture of

In art, picking apart and analyzing paintings, statues, and other creations is essential to the understanding of each piece’s elements of design and iconography. Context also plays a huge role in interpretation, because, without it, a painting is simply a painting, not a story. Seated Scribe, an ancient Egyptian sculpture, portrays a man sitting with his legs crossed “holding a papyrus scroll partially unrolled on his lap, his right hand clasping a now-lost reed pen. (Stokstad)” The medium the unknown artist chose to use is limestone, and it is painted to resemble natural north African features such as skin tone and hair color, and sits twenty-one inches tall.

Compare and contrast the statues of humans found in ancient Egypt and ancient Greece. The statues in Egypt looked mostly the same due to their proportional system. The figures were all stiff, and had frontal stances. The Greek statues started out like the Egyptian statues, but changed throughout time.

statues display their own set of artistic conventions in their strict symmetry, basic forms, and

Andrew Carnegie’s “The Gospel of Wealth” and Samuel Gompers’ letter to Judge Peter Grosscup offer different opinions concerning the course that people of different economic standings should take in regards to power and social stature. However, both works mean to steer society in what seems to be opposite directions. Carnegie focuses more on how the wealthy in the society should take the seemingly philanthropic approach whereas Gompers’ offers a more organizational and structured point of view.

The statue of King Sahure and a Nome god is an interesting piece of Ancient Egyptian art ( c. 2500 BC ) that shows signs of Ancient Egyptian culture and beliefs. The statue is a small relief sculpture, meaning the sculptural elements are attached to the solid background of the sculpture and appears to be emerging from the material. The piece clearly depicts two figures side by side, one standing on the left and one sitting on the right (facing foreward). The purpose of this piece was probably to depict a certain symbolic interaction between the two characters.

The artworks of Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt are both strikingly different and similar at the same time. Consistent is the theme of serving the different gods the two cultures believed in. In Mesopotamia the various city-states each had their own protective deity, and in Egypt they sometimes differed from one dynasty to the next. Whatever the case, with the beginning of kingdoms and rulership came the need to justify a position of power and establish a hierarchy. And as more time passed came also the human need to leave an impression on their world. Looking at the example of the statues of Gudea from the Neo-Sumerian period and the Temple of Ramses II from the New Kingdom of Egypt in the 19th dynasty, will show how both rulers of