Pg. 16). His warriors are following behind him with a confident and unwavering stance, showing their confidence in Naram-Sin and
The modern American culture is fascinated by the Ancient Egyptians and their style of art. It is displayed in music videos, architecture, fashion, and so on. People love it. Part of what makes Egyptian culture so enticing is the works of art that archeologists have found over the years. Two examples of those works of art include Menkaure and His Wife and Akhenaten. Though they appear to be drastically different, they have some similarities upon further inspection.
In the great epic, Beowulf, an unknown poet describes Beowulf as an invincible hero with the amazing strength stronger than any human ever, but does having the traits of an incredible warrior, make him a great king? A great king is loyal, generous, reliable and should be able to realize what he needs to do to make sure his people are safe. Beowulf is brave, strong, and extremely confident in his combat abilities, but Beowulf does not think about the possible effects of his actions. Beowulf cares about his fame, fortune, and legacy, but he often makes rushed decisions that risk his life and could potentially leave his people powerless and unprotected. During Beowulf’s transformation from thane to king, he has always had more of a warrior’s mindset,
Yuny lived in the city of Asyut and was a chief royal scribe and holder of many other offices. Yuny’s responsibilities were written on the base of the statue. Him and his wife Renenutet were members of Egypt’s nobility in the city of Asyut. The statue is more than half the size of Yuny back in real life. The statue which is carved out of Limestone was found in the tomb of Yuny’s father, Amenhotep. There was at least two generations found within the single tomb. The height of the statue is 84.5 centimeters and it was consisted in the nineteenth dynasty.
Elizabeth I, Queen of England from 1558-1603, brought much success and political stability to England during her reign. However, the ideas about gender at the time greatly influenced her rule. With the views of the religious peoples during Elizabeth’s reign leaning towards negativity about a woman ruler, Elizabeth I responded to these challenges against her ability to rule wisely with sophisticated anger and strong leadership, while not responding to the challenges to her authority as a religious leader.
During the reign of the New Kingdom pharaoh Amenhotep IV, also called Akhenaten, the art of ancient Egypt underwent a considerable change. This is unsurprising given the fact that the shift throughout Egypt in culture and religion was so immense. So, logically, it follows that the stylistic choices in art during that time period would alter significantly. In order to fully understand the extent to which the artists active during the reign of Akhenaten revolutionized art, it is very important to compare the work of that time period with some of the art created during other prevalent eras in ancient Egypt.
There has been many great leaders in our history, but the one that outshone everybody was Alexander the Great. His father was King Phillip and his mother was Olympias. To this day he has had the largest empire in the world and was a successful ruler. So the real question here is how great was Alexander the Great? During his lifetime people would question if Alexander if he showed enough leadership, courage, and intelligence to be called great.
The greatest egyptian, without a doubt, was Hatshepsut of the New Kingdom. The reasons being as follow: she was a great and powerful ruler, Egypt prospered abundantly under her reign, and she kept her word to step down as soon as her son had come of age to take the throne. These are only three of many reasons Hatshepsut deserves to be recognized as the greatest Egyptian. In this essay, these reasons will be expanded upon in the following paragraphs.
First association with the Egyptian culture for me is related to Sphinx. That’s why first what caught my eyes was Sphinx of Hatshepsut. No, of course, it is not that massive Great Sphinx in Giza, Egypt but his history is also interesting.
The sphinx of Taharqo was build around 100BC- 600 BC. This sphinx was located in Kawa, Sudan Africa. The Sphinx of Taharqo is made of sand stone. It has a height of 40.6cm and a width of 73cm. In African cultures, figures made with a human head and the body of a lion symbolizes Egyptian royalty and power. Also they could symbolize creatures of myths and legend. However in this particular sphinx it symbolizes the royalty and power of King Taharqo. This is not a typical sphinx because this one was build for a black man. King Taharqo was a powerful and a great leader of the Kush kingdom located in Sudan, Africa. He was so powerful that he was able to take over Egyptian ruling. When you take a closer look at the head of the sphinx, you might be
The two openings I chose were Fol. 5v-6r done by Hand B and Fol. 18v-19r done by Hand A. In Fol. 5v-6r, the left side of the frames on both pages are lined with blue and the right side is lined with pink. In each of these frames is four squares that each have a background color of either gold, blue, or pink and decorative columns or arches at the top or along the sides. This opening is read left to right, top to bottom, and left page to right page. When read this way, the biblical order of the opening is understood to be: (Genesis 41:1-7) Dreams of a King, (Genesis 41:8) Searching for Answers, (Genesis 41:14-31) Joseph Interprets Pharaoh’s Dreams, (Genesis 41:41-43) A Powerful Post, (Genesis 42:6-20) An Ironic Turn of Events, (Genesis 43:11-14) A Bounty, and (Genesis 4:4-17) Tricks and Accusations.
This part will evoke women’s life and rights in the Northern Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty is often seen as the start of the decline of women status in the Chinese society: a revival of Confucianism led women political role to be reduced, as well as their public appearance compared to Tang Dynasty. The practice of foot binding also started in the Song Dynasty. However, women also enjoyed new and reinforced property rights, and social mobility and political influence were not completely impossible to achieve. Indeed, there are several examples of some lower class women managing to get considerable power by providing pleasure to the higher spheres of the Imperial Court.
Highly decorative scenes of the damned in agony, the saved ascending to heaven and a simple, yet historic note that reads “Gislebertus hoc fecit” which translates to “Gislebertus made this” (Stokstad and Cothern, 2013), makes the Last Judgment Tympanum at Autun, an important piece of artwork during the Romanesque period. While the connection to Roman sculpture is clearly visible, harkening the intricate, multi scene figures in examples like the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus (Stokstad and Cothern, 2013), deeper scrutiny shows a connection to previous cultures and innately expounded upon one another.
The second image is Portrait of the Kangxi Emperor in Court Dress. This piece if art was created by Qing Dynasty during the 18th century dating the 1644- 1911. In addition, this image was concealed only to be seen by the elite and royalty. During favorable occasions painting like this was created. The Emperor was mysterious and only seen by a few which increased his God-like status. Throughout the painting there is iconography and symbolism. To illustrate his authority, the Kangxi sits on a dragon throne, which raises him higher than his court. With Kangxi being the Emperor, his feet were not to touch the ground. The Dragon is thought to be the guardian and aide to the Emperor. In addition, the dragon is also repeated on his robe several times.
Abstract: In this paper, I discuss the film Gladiator and the specific main characters of Maximus, Commodus and Marcus Aurelius. They displayed both good and bad leadership throughout the film. Maximus mostly exemplified the positive theories of leadership, while Marcus Aurelius and Commidus represented the bad forms. Maximus mainly displayed the leadership traits of transformational leadership, LMX theory, referent and legitimate power and Great Man Theory. Marcus Aurelius and Commodus engaged in bad leadership as well as coercive power.