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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Archaeology & Ancient near East
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof Arlette David
Coordinator Office Hours:
By appointment
Teaching Staff:
Prof Arlette David
Course/Module description:
The ancient Egyptian artist: life, work, models, techniques
Course/Module aims:
Presentation of the ancient Egyptian artists, their social status, formative years, work conditions, through the analysis of artwork, trial pieces and sketches, texts, and archaeological finds illustrating the life of ancient Egyptian
artists
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Have a better understanding of ancient Egyptian art by observing the conditions of its
production
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Frontal teaching with PPT
presentations, reading assignments of relevant articles to be discussed in class
Course/Module Content:
1. Introduction: textual, iconographic, and material evidence
2. Technique and magic; terminology
3. Apprenticeship: figured ostraca; tablets; grids
4. Practice: thematic choices
5. Creativity and individuality: frontality;hands and style;autoportrait;non-canonical genres; humor
Required Reading:
Drenkhahn, R., 1995. Artisans and Artists in Pharaonic Egypt. In Civilizations of the Ancient
Near East, ed. J.M. Sasson, 331-43. New York: Scribner’s Sons.
Baines, J., 1994. On the Status and Purposes of Ancient Egyptian Art. Cambridge
Archaeological Journal 4: 67-94.
Cooney, K.M., 2012. Apprenticeship and Figured Ostraca from the Ancient Egyptian Village of Deir el-Medina. In Archaeology and Apprenticeship: Body knowledge, Identity, and Communities of Practice, ed. W. Wendrich, 145-70. Tucson.
Laboury, D., 2012. Tracking Ancient Egyptian Artists, a Problem of Methodology: The Case of the Painters of Private Tombs in the Theban Necropolis during the Eighteenth Dynasty. In Art and Society: Ancient and Modern Contexts of Egyptian Art. Proceedings of the International Conference held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 13-15 May 2010, ed. K.A. Kothay, 199-208. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts.
Additional Reading Material:
Baines, J., 1990. Restricted Knowledge, Hierarchy, and Decorum: Modern Perceptions and Ancient Institutions. JARCE 27: 1-23.
Eaton-Krauss, M., 2001. Artists and Artisans. In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt I, ed. D.B. Redford, 136-40. Oxford.
Hurwit, J.M., 2015. Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece. Cambridge, 11-7.
Ware, E.W., 1927. Egyptian Artists’ Signatures. American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures 43: 185-207.
Wilson, J.A., 1947. The Artist of the Egyptian Old Kingdom. JNES 6: 231-49.
Smith, M.J., 1993. Liturgy of ‘Opening the Mouth’ for Breathing. Oxford : Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum.
Desroches-Noblecourt, C., 1947. Une coutume égyptienne méconnue. BIFAO 45: 185-232.
Volokhine, Y., 2000. La frontalité dans l’iconographie de l’Egypte ancienne. Genève.
Tefnin, R., 2003. Les regards de l’image: Des origines jusqu’à Byzance. Paris.
Tefnin, R. (ed.), 1997. La peinture égyptienne ancienne: Un monde de signes à préserver. Actes du Colloque international de Bruxelles, avril 1994. MAe 7/Imago 1. Bruxelles: Fondation Egyptologique Reine Elisabeth.
Laboury, D. & Tavier, H., 2010. A la recherche des peintres de la nécropole thébaine sous la 18e dynastie: Prolégomènes a une analyse des pratiques picturales dans la tombe d’Amenemope (TT 29). In Thèbes aux 101 portes: Mélanges à la memoire de Roland Tefnin, eds. E. Warmenbol & V. Angenot. MAe 12/Imago 3, 91-106. Turnhout: Fondation Egyptologique Reine Elisabeth/Brepols.
Catalogue 2002. Les artistes de Pharaon: Deir el-Médineh et la Vallée des Rois. Turnhout:
Brepols.
Vandier d’Abbadie, J., 1936-59. Catalogue des ostraca figurés de Deir el-Medineh. 4 fasc.
Cairo: IFAO.
Angenot, V., La marge de créativité de l'artiste dans l'Ancienne Égypte: code, écart,
rhétorique. Recherches poïétiques 6: 122-9.
Laboury, D., 2005. Dans l'atelier du sculpteur Thoutmose. Acta Orientalia Belgica 18, 289-300. Liege.
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 50 %
Assignments 50 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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