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Egyptian Art
Rating: 4.3 out of 5(21 ratings)
108 students

Egyptian Art

Unity across time
Created byFederico von Borstel
Last updated 6/2025
English
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What you'll learn

  • At the end of this course students will be able to appreciate and understand this complex and meaningful art of the ancient Egyptians.
  • Increased appreciation of Art
  • The course promotes self-learning.
  • The course seeks to enrich your life experience.

Course content

1 section • 15 lectures • 1h 39m total length

  • Introduction1:53

    Explore the unity of Egyptian art across time, from the Old Kingdom pyramids of Giza to the tombs of the Valley of the Kings, with dynastic context.

  • Introduction to Egypt and the Egyptians9:11

    Explore how the Nile and desert shaped Egyptian art, and how hieroglyphic writing accompanies imagery, with Champollion's decipherment unlocking a book of their art and words.

  • Egyptian Deities3:47

    Explore Egyptian deities as archetypes embodied as anthropomorphic beings with animal heads, and note temples and royal offerings to Sobek and Osiris.

  • The Papyrus of Ani6:38

    The papyrus of Ani presents the Book of the Dead scenes, prayers to demons, and the weighing of the heart against a feather, guided by Osiris and Anubis.

  • Timeline and the Dynastic Periods and Kings of Ancient Egypt4:42

    Trace how Upper and Lower Egypt united into a single nation and explore dynastic timelines, royal crowns, and king lists across the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms.

  • Art of the Predynastic Period8:11

    Explore predynastic and dynastic Egyptian art through highly crafted cattle reliefs, an astronomical night-sky map, and ritual symbols of power, crown distinctions, and unification imagery across early kings.

  • Elephantine Island5:38

    Explore Elephantine Island's ancient art and habitation traces from the early dynasties, with hieroglyphs, Upper Egypt crowns, and a timeless pharaonic gesture echoing through millennia.

  • Art of the Old Kingdom, Saqqara9:59

    Explore the art of the Old Kingdom at Saqqara, from the step pyramid and funerary complexes to pyramid texts that reveal ancient afterlife beliefs, along with naturalistic reliefs and sculptures.

  • The Pyramids of Dashur2:59

    Explore Dashur funerary art and the invention of the pyramid, examining the bent pyramid's steeper start and 43-degree completion, alongside the Red Pyramid on sturdier ground that lacks its tip.

  • The Pyramids of Giza14:24

    Explore the Old Kingdom art of the Giza plateau, including the pyramids of Khufu and Khafre and the Sphinx, seen as earth art aligned with Orion.

  • Art of the Middle Kingdom4:10

    Explore the mid kingdom artworks—offering scenes, priestly processions, and beer production in wood, plaster, and cloth and linen—highlighting anatomy, movement, and burial rites that reveal ancient Egyptian life.

  • The Pharaoh Akhenaten, the Heretic King3:50

    Explore Akhenaten, the heretic king who moved the capital to Tell el-Amarna, challenged priestly power, and fostered sun worship with Nefertiti and their children.

  • The Art from the Temple of Hatshepsut5:11

    Explore the cliff-built temple of Hatshepsut, a unique blend of temple and tomb with preserved paintings, iconic capitals, and the inner sanctum awaiting the book of gates.

  • Art from the Tombs of the Valley of the Kings9:26

    Explore the book of gates and the twelve night hours guiding the soul through the underworld, illustrated in the tombs of Ramses IV, Ramses I, and Seti I.

  • Course Catalog9:46

    Explore the course catalog for Egyptian art through a brief, repetitive narration that repeats 'birdie' and 'it's over' to signal conclusion.

Requirements

  • The most important requirement is a curiosity and interest in the art of the Ancient Egyptians.

Description

This course is an expedition of excitement, mystery and beauty. We will travel by felucca, by camel, in caravans and on foot to discover and wonder at the art in the temples, in the tombs and in the sacred documents of ancient Egypt. I will introduce you to the most iconic works from ancient Egypt, and also take you to less well known, more mysterious and remote sites throughout Egypt. I have taught this course at the university level numerous times and have taken students with me on life changing travels throughout Egypt, and that is what I want for you.

I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.

Who this course is for:

  • Travelers, explorers and artists.

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