{Origin of Ancient Egyptian Art [continued (3)]}[29th April 1991]

[Redbook9:207][19910429:0914f]{Origin of Ancient Egyptian Art [continued (3)]}[29th April 1991]

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This* was followed by disintegration of central government (The 1^st Intermediate Period),** then by reunification, strong kings (The Middle Kingdom),*** and two centuries**** in which ‘craftsmen achieved new levels of excellence’# before new political disintegration (The 2^nd Intermediate Period),#* leading to the New Kingdom#** and ‘a new blossoming of the arts and crafts of ancient Egypt’.#***

#****

So one cannot show art only at 2048G~, but perhaps the only really new art [is] in that semicircle.

*[See last previous TS journal entry]

**c[irca]2160-c[irca]2000[bce]

***c[irca]2050ff[bce]

****c[irca]2040-c[irca]1786[bce]

#[– Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 1:22]

#*c[irca]1786-c[irca]1567[bce]

#**c[irca]1567-c[irca]1085[bce]

#***For details see VIII: [[Redbook8:44-67][19901027ff]{Comparative Chronology}[27th October 1990],] 50ff

#****[– Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 1:22]

Egypt also had a cultural revival c[irca]650-550[bce]

[There are difference of opinion of up to 4 centuries in the chronology of the early period of ancient Egypt, both before and after (and including) the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt]

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