PAINTING FROM ANCIENT EGYPT

Many ancient Egyptian paintings have survived in tombs, and sometimes temples, due to
Egypt's extremely dry climate. The paintings were often made with the intent of making a
pleasant afterlife for the deceased. The themes included journey through the afterworld or
protective deities introducing the deceased to the gods of the underworld (such as Osiris). Some
tomb paintings show activities that the deceased were involved in when they were alive and
wished to carry on doing for eternity.

-Make deceased afterlife place pleasant

With this in mind themes include journey to the underworld introducing the deceased to the
gods of the underworld by their protective deities.

-emphasizes the importance of life after death and the preservation of the knowledge of the past.
-Most paintings were highly stylized,symbolic and shows profile view of an animal or a person.

-main color were red, black, blue,gold and green derived from mineral pigments that can
withstand strong sunlight without fading

Blue represented the sky, water, the heavens, the ancient flood and both rebirth and
creation.
Red was the color of fire, anger, life, chaos, victory and hostility.
Yellow represented eternal, imperishable, indestructible
Green was the color of vegetation, growth, joy, fertility, new life and regeneration
White is the color of cleanliness, power, purity, simplicity

Egyptian artists mixed the colors so that they could show details in the paintings that
were closer to real life.

The paintings of the walls on the tomb show events of the life of the king while he was still on
Earth and the scenes he expects to encounter in the underworld after his death.

PAINTINGS FROM SARCOPHAGUS OF TUTANKHAMEN XVIII DYNASTY

1362 A.D- 1253 BC

Egyptian Book of the Dead (16th Century BC)

Known to ancient Egyptians as the Book of Coming Forth by Day, the scroll was
entombed with various people who were wealthy enough to afford such vital guide
through the Underworld.

Amarna Period Art (14th Century BC

During this period that coincides with the rule of pharaoh Akhenaten, ancient
Egyptian art takes a distinctly unique form.

Throne of Tutankhamun (14th Century BC)

Tutankhamuns cuboid-shaped throne was one of the most spectacular things

Howard Carter saw when he entered the Pharaohs intact tomb in 1922.
PAINTINGS FROM ROMAN ERA

PAINTINGS FROM THE ROMAN ERA Most of the paintings were copied or imitated from Hellenic Greek paintings Fresco
technique was used in brightly colored backgrounds; division of the wall into a multiple rectangular areas (tic-tac-toe);
multi-point perspective; and a tropme-l-oeil effect. Have wide variety of subjects, animals, everyday life, still life,
mythological subjects, portraits, and landscapes. The development of landscape painting is the main innovation of
Roman painting from Greek painting. Mosaic It is an art process where an image is created using an assemblage of
small pieces of colored glass, stones, or other materials. This technique is used for decorative art or interior
decorations.
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SUMMARY OF GREEK PAINTING Greek Dark Age ca. 1200-800 BC Archaic age ca. 800-500 BC Classical/Hellenistic age
ca. 500 BC-0 pottery decoration protogeometric geometric > orientalizing > black-figure red-figure > decline murals
flat murals (Tomb of the Diver) realistic murals (Vergina Tombs)

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General Features Greek painting has survived mainly as pottery decoration. The few surviving Greek murals are
remarkable, however, as they exhibit significant advances in techniques of realism (namely shading and perspective).1
The heart of Greek culture (including painting) was Athens; this was true even in the Greek Dark Age, during which
Athens (like all other Greek settlements) had yet to grow into a city (see History of Greek Europe).

Greek Dark Age ca. 1200-800 BC Mycenaean civilization collapsed, possibly due to civil strife, ca. 1200 BC. Thus began
the Greek Dark Age, during which the Aegean region languished in deurbanized poverty. Nonetheless, this period
witnessed the development of the protogeometric style, which features concentric circles and patterns of straight,
wavy, and zigzag lines.

Archaic Age ca. 800-500 BC The Archaic period encompassed three phases of Greek jar painting: geometric,
orientalizing, and black-figure.
The geometric style elevated geometric decoration to new heights of complexity. A geometric style vessel features a
variety of patterns, such as checkers, repeated shapes, and meanders.

The next phase of Greek painting is known as orientalizing, due to its adoption of images from eastern lands (e.g. lions,
sphinxes). Orientalizing pottery decoration can be divided into two main styles. The bold and lavish protoattic style of
Athens, well-suited to large jars, essentially takes the geometric style and adds large figures.

The orientalizing period was succeeded by the black-figure style, in which the silhouettes of figures are painted in solid
black (typically on a vibrant orange background); details are then added by cutting lines into the silhouettes.6

The Archaic age also witnessed the rise of Greek wall painting, which (during the Archaic period) featured a flat,
sharply outlined style.8 Few examples survive; the finest collection may be that of the Tomb of the Diver, discovered at
a Greek settlement in southern Italy.

Greek mural painting was adopted by the Etruscans of central Italy, who used it to decorate the walls of their own
rock-cut tombs.10 Since the style of Etruscan painting was firmly Greek-based, these tomb murals (of which many
more survive than Greek murals) provide a valuable glimpse into Greek painting.

Classical/Hellenistic Age ca. 500 BC-0 The last major school of Greek pottery painting was red-figure, in which the
black-figure technique was reversed: orange silhouettes were formed by painting around them in black, allowing
interior details to be painted rather than incised. This gave the artist much more control in drawing smooth curves or
varying the thickness of lines when adding details. It also allowed for gradients of colour, since the black paint could be
diluted to acquire shades of brown.7

What is Fresco Painting? Characteristics The art term Fresco (Italian for 'fresh') describes the method of painting in
which colour pigments are mixed solely with water (no binding agent used) and then applied directly onto freshly laid
lime-plaster ground (surface).
Types of Fresco
Buon fresco, the most common fresco method, involves the use of pigments mixed with water (without a binding
agent) on a thin layer of wet, fresh, lime mortar or plaster (intonaco).
By contrast, secco painting is done on dry plaster and therefore requires a binding medium, (eg. egg tempera, glue or
oil) to attach the pigment to the wall, as in the famous mural painting known as The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci.
Mezzo-fresco involves painting onto almost but not quite dry intonaco so that the pigment only penetrates slightly into
the plaster. By 1600 this had largely replaced buon fresco on murals and ceilings.

What is Encaustic Painting? In fine art, the word "encaustic" describes both the paint and painting technique which
uses hot beeswax to bind colour pigments and to facilitate their application to a surface. An invention of Greek art, its
name derives from the Greek word meaning "burnt in". The paint is applied to the painting surface (usually a wooden
panel, or a wall), after which it is reheated to fuse the paint into a uniform enamel-like finish, devoid of all brushmarks.
A panel painting is a painting made on a flat panel made of wood, either a single piece, or a number of pieces joined
together. Until canvas became the more popular support medium in the 16th century, it was the normal form of
support for a painting not on a wall (fresco) or vellum, which was used for miniatures in illuminated manuscripts and
paintings for the framing.

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Vase painting- bilingual vase painting is a special form of ancient greek vase painting, derived from linguistics, is
essentially a metaphorical one, it decribes vases that are both painted in black and red figure techniques. Black figure
pottery- is one of styles of painting on antique greek vases. It was especially comon between the 17th and 5th
centuries BC.

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Red figure pottery- is a style of greek vase paintings that was invented in Athens around 530 BCE.

Shapes:
Pelike- ceramic container similar to an amphora. It has two open handles,a narrow neck,flanged mouth,and a
sagging,almost spherical belly

Lekanis- low bowls with two horizontal handles and a broad low foot,the handles are regulary ribbon shaped

Lebes gamikos- an ancient greek pottery used in marriage ceremonies,used in the ritual sprinkling of the bride with
water before the wedding

Krater- a large vase used to mix water and wine in ancient greece

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