Egyptian and Greek civilizations have a long and glorious history and have contributed in various fields like art and architecture. Though there are several similarities between Greek and Egyptian art, they have many concrete differences between them. When talking about Greek and Egyptian art, it is the sculpture and architecture that comes to everyone’s mind (Klein, 388). Egyptian art was more oriented towards religion. On the contrary, Greek art was much more oriented towards philosophy. Unlike Egyptian art, Greek art examined the world as it was and explored the various concepts of life. Let us look at the differences between the Greek and the Egyptian sculptures and architecture that gives a clear picture of the differences between the two art forms. The Egyptian statues followed very strict …show more content…
Next to the Great Pyramid, the 7.5 cm (3 inch) statue is the only physical evidence of Khufu’s two decade-long reign (fig.16-10 in the book). It was found by the famed English Egyptologist Flinders Petrie at the ancient necropolis of Abydos, south of the Temple of Osiris. Petrie’s team, however, had a problem. They uncovered the statue without its head. Luckily, they managed to find the missing head and the builder of the Great Pyramid finally got a face. Khufu’s Statue is today housed in the Cairo museum (Klein, 398). An example of art from Greek: The Riace bronzes (460-420BC) (fig.16-14 in the book) These tremendous statues found in the sea off southern Italy in 1972 are important because so few original Greek bronze statues survive. Most of the classical nudes in museums were carved in marble in the Roman era, as reproductions of such rare, and now largely lost, originals. Here we see the true majesty of Greek art in its classical age, which occurred in the fifth-century BC (Klein, 422). Goddesses from the east pediment of the Parthenon (c 438-432BC) (fig.17-9 in the