Egyptian, Greek & Roman Art

 

Greek                                                                                                                     Eygpt                     Early

      

     Early ancient Greek’s sculpture and Egypt’s sculpture was similar. Old Greeks had learned technics of how Egyptian carved the stones or marbles. That is why the gesture of both sculptures is identically stiff, formal, and its left leg is kind of positioned in forward compared to other leg. On the contrast, the size of statue is different. Greek’s statue is about 5-8 feet, but Egyptian’s statue is small to fit in a tomb with a pharaoh. The reason that size differs is because of their religion and custom. Ancient Egyptian cared about their after-life so that they put bribery artifacts in the tomb for the god to help their afterlife. Also ancient Egyptian loved symbolism. Even their words were hieroglyphics which they put meaning in some sorts of weird drawings and used them as words. To understand ancient Egyptian art, we need to interpret the symbolism correctly. Especially hats or wigs that pharaoh, god, and goddess wear have meanings. Sometimes hat or wig will distinguish what kind of god he/she is. Also many sculpture of Egyptian are focused on pharaoh and gods. On the other hand, Greek believed human body was a great gift from a god and had perfection ratio. Hence, we could find that Greek god and goddess’s sculptures looked like a human being. However, the Greek’s technics of carving had been changed a lot. Their statues became more dynamic and by watching them we could feel that they are energetic. Greek artist developed many technics from what they’d learned to Egyptian. Yet, Egyptian valued more on the tradition which means that their statues were still formal and stiff.

                                                                Greek-later