1 HW: Egyptian, Greek & Roman styles

 Egyptian, Greek & Roman styles

  This is a statue of King Shaure and a Nome God. The solitary three dimensional artwork of Sahure in the metropolitan museum. In this statue, both King Sahure and the Nome God had one foot forward, this gesture has been an identical aspect in a great number of Egyptian artworks. With a Nome God’s accompany, animal figures continue to be found. Two falcons above the Nome God’s head, and a cobra around King Sahure’s brow. The combination of falcons and cobra is often a symbol of kingship. King Shaure and Nome God were carved out of a stone, although two, or more than two different substances makes the stone appears in different colors, it reveals a strength and clarity of bodies throughout the sculptures’ carve lines.

  Marble, limestone, sliver, not only the use or materials became diversified, the focus of the artworks themselves were shifted in the time of the epic period. The Greek and Roman arts aroused resonance by bringing more focus on groups of people, like families, or crowds of festivity gatherings, but royal emperors and gods. More importantly, the representation of human bodies became less ideal but more realistic due to society and political environment people were live in. compare to ancient Egyptian arts, new gods were brought in, new stories were reveled and preserved. and new forms of art adopted to those changes. aside the differences, both Egyptian arts and Greek, roman arts have highlight the strength of human body, combination of mankind and animals.