FA2019.FA111.ArtHistory.Caz

Where in the world are we?  East of Italy, North of Africa, West of Turkey .... The Classical Greek World Here we find the emergence of a  Classical style that illustrated numerous things: cultural stories, historical narratives, religion and mythology. Exekias Vatican amphora 800 - 300 BCE Amphoras & kraters The GEOMETRIC PERIOD 900 - 700 BCE Black-figure 800 - 300 BCE Red-figure   700 - 400 BCE From our text... "There is no hint of gods or kings. Focus rests on the private diversions of heroic warriors as well as on the identity and personal style of the artist who portrayed them." "Supremely self-aware and self-confident , the ancient Greeks developed a concept of human supremacy and responsibility that required a new visual expression." Exekias  ( Ancient Greek :  Ἐξηκίας ,  Exēkías ) was an ancient Greek vase-painter and potter  who was active in Athens  between roughly 545 BC and 530...

Funerary Mask of Tutankhamun Ruled: 1332 - 1322 BCE Dynasty VIII p. 48 "This has been, perhaps, the most extraordinary day in the whole history of Egyptian excavation...The entrance today was made into the sealed chamber of (Tutankhamun's) tomb...and yet another door opened beyond that. No eyes have seen the King, but to practical certainty we know that  lies there close at hand in all his original state, undisturbed."               The Times of London ,  February 16, 1923 Tutankhamun's mask, or funerary mask of Tutankhamun, is the death mask of the 18th-dynasty Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun. It was discovered by Howard Carter in 1925 in tomb KV62 and is now housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.   Found in the Valley of the Kings, after 15 years of digging! Carter's last expedition, sponsored by the wealthy British amateur Egyptologist Lord Carnarvon.  The tomb dates to c. 1332 - 1322 BCE The death mask is ma...