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The sculpture was practiced in ancient Egypt as early as the Predynastic period painting with admirable perfection in statuary and bas, preserved thousands of objects from one class and one carved in wood, ivory, bronze (sometimes gold and inlaid with gold and silver) in clay, and above all in stone print for the statues usually very hard.
The bas Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions are used to, representations of gods and pharaohs, the domestic life of farming or scenes of grave prints and especially to commemorate the victories of the Pharaohs.
The statues are usually mythological gods, pharaohs, and sometimes important people, people engaged in simple household chores, in burial chambers. Their size varies considerably from the great giants of the temples of Abu Simbel which measure twenty landscapes meters to the tiny figures just a few centimeters in length (usually of clay, painted or varnished). The reliefs were polychrome painting techniques with tempera. Can be seen in the windows of several museums around the world.
Are common in Egyptian tombs of the Theban epoch some mummies like statues representing the deceased or the craft of respondents ushebtis (so named in the funeral painter ritual). While other larger and natural look that is also placed in the tombs are authentic portraits of the deceased, which, in the opinion of the Egyptians served as watercolor the mainstay of Ka, a kind of spiritual double that survived the supposed body of the deceased that only was the residence of the Ka.
Assuming the Egyptians, moreover, that the spirit of the deceased would be very conturbado and could not be achieved if the resurrection was not maintained integrates the mummy or statue, which comes on to keep this is a faithful portrait, in the case of idealized the Pharaohs, and the statues that always represents the most drawings compact oil painting as possible out if these members could emerge over time and these statues are for eternity. It also highlights the burial chambers of populating statues, paintings and reliefs representing various scenes of domestic life, utensils, cattle, agricultural and industrial, food, armies, etc., Recreational spirit of the mummy.
Small effigies of deities that are in painters the graves, from the posters Middle Empire, and was introduced to the bandages of the mummies, were portraits considered entities that served as protective amulets and spells. Also, some esculturillas giclee ivory representing animals such as the sacred scarab, ibis and other mythological figures, which normally portrait has some holes that have been used to indicate necklaces canvas and trinkets suspended from the neck.
The statues of pharaohs were always upright, with a straight trunk, arms close to body or supported on the thighs when sitting. When the action of walking is almost always moving left foot.
If the attitude of the statue is paintings sitting on the floor (as regards the representation abstract of writing), or cross your legs together and added a papyrus deployed on them.
In any gallery case, representing the Egyptians illustration and foreigners without beards with them or with the nature poster and customs of the respective country of origin.
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