Louvre Museum ,Egyptian Antiquities.

Louvre Museum ,Egyptian Antiquities. Pyramids,Egypt Map

Created by Jean-François Champollion, this department illustrates the art of ancient Egypt by means of two designated paths. The first is chronological, from the origins to Cleopatra, and the second is thematic, highlighting specific aspects of Egyptian civilization. Two additional sections, devoted to Coptic Egypt and Roman Egypt, round off this presentation.

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The Egyptians were one of the first major civilizations to codify design elements in art. The wall paintings done in the service of the Pharaohs followed a rigid code of visual rules and meanings. Early Egyptian art is characterized by absence of linear perspective, which results in a seemingly flat space. These artists tended to create images based on what they knew, and not as much on what they see. Objects in these artworks generally do not decrease in size as they increase in distance and there is little shading to indicate depth.Sometimes, distance is indicated through the use of tiered space, where more distant objects are drawn higher above the nearby objects, but in the same scale and with no overlapping of forms. People and objects are almost always drawn in profile. Also, you may notice the people in Egyptian art are never facing forward. Archaeologists are not yet sure of why, but they are leaning torwards the fact that artists status was low in the hierarchy so they could never be in front of a higher authority figure, and never be faced towards them.

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Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt The silk road led staright through ancient Alexandria. Also, the Royal Library of Alexandria was once the largest in the world. It is usually assumed to have been founded at the beginning of the 3rd century BC during the reign of Ptolemy II of Egypt after his father had set up the Temple of the Muses or Museum. The initial
organization is attributed to Demetrius Phalereus. The Library is estimated to have stored at its peak 400,000 to 700,000 scrolls.

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Page 1 is Louvre Museum Cour Napoleon Pyramid.Page 2 is Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities. Page 3 is Egyptian Antiquities,Page 4 is Paintings and Decorative Art