Wall painting in Ancient Egypt
Early Egyptian wall painting: A person in a boat (Barramiya, Upper Egypt, ca. 4000 BC) Stone Age rock carvings The earliest art from North Africa is carvings of giraffes and [...]
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Ancient Egypt art project: drawing self-portraits
Ancient Egypt art project: What would you look like in Egyptian art? Egyptian sculptors wanted to show what people were really like inside, not just what they looked like on [...]
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What’s the Amarna period? Ancient Egypt
Akhenaten (ca. 1350 BC) New Kingdom Egypt In the middle of the New Kingdom, around 1350 BC, the Greeks were building their megaron palaces at Mycenae and Pylos. The Hittites [...]
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Mesopotamian plate project – West Asia
Mesopotamian plate, made by kids at Laurelhurst School, Portland Oregon Mesopotamia is where the pottery wheel was invented West Asia was not the first place on earth where people began [...]
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Making molded bricks – Mesopotamia project
Molded bricks project: A bull from the Ishtar Gate, Babylon (600s BC) Why molded bricks? Architects in ancient Mesopotamia (West Asia) didn't have much good stone to carve, but they [...]
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Drawing rock art – African art project
Khoisan painting at Springfontein, Zimbabwe Khoisan rock art was a way for artists in southern Africa to show their dreams and ideas about how the world worked, or should work. [...]
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Relief carving – ancient Egypt project
Egyptian relief carving of a man leading a bull: the background has been cut away Egyptian artists used different carving techniques in the Old Kingdom (about 3000-2000 BC) than they [...]
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Painting an icon – Middle Ages project
Byzantine icon of St. Catherine(1300s AD) In the Middle Ages, many people believed that a painting or statue of the Christian God, or Jesus, or Mary, or one of the saints, [...]
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Paint a Greek vase – Ancient Greece project
A red-figure vase painted by the Berlin Painter (Athens, about 480 BC) If you need an art project, or something you can do sitting down, here's a suggestion for a [...]
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Making a gold bowl – Ancient Greece project
Trojan gold bowl, made by 6th graders at Laurelhurst School, Portland About 1250 BC, the Greek army fought their neighbors the Trojans in the Trojan War. Troy was across the [...]
