The Style of Ancient Egyptian Art

A description of the rigid style used in Ancient Egyptian art, how people were depicted and why the style didn't change at all over the course of several millennia.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• ancient
• egypt
• egyptian
• pyramid
• pyramids
• art
• style
• rigid

[djueat]

What's the name of the whole documentary? Would love to se the entire film. Thanks.

[eIectrostatic]

@djueat It's from the documentary series "How Art Made the World", episode 1 of 3, called "More Human Than Human".

[1961shootingstar]

This was a nice and interesting documentary enjoyed viewing it

[SarahLee1]

Fascinating. Never once in those thosuands of years did one ancient egyptian artist go "hey, what if we tried drawing it like this instead?"

[WeiJieD]

Law and order makes me sick=.=

But I like Ancient Egyptian arts,though^.^

[djueat]

Thanks! Once I emailed you I realized how I should alter my search criteria and found the whole Dr. Nigel Spivey's dealie. His principal conclusions are rather questionable, but the visuals are great.

[AMY1213141]

Awesome video, a painting of a banquet in the tomb of Nebamun shows 2 or 3 women with their faces straight on, not profile. Always thought that was interesting

[adyyy22]

He has forgotten to mention that they also use "big toe" on both feet. So depending on the profile of the image, it looks as if the person has both right or left feet. Just pointing out this detail

[Jasy1988able]

thanks for an amazing video! very cool