British Museum – Day 5
The outside of the British Museum
The interior of the Museum
The “Egg”
Stansted Airport
30 St Mary Axe “The Gherkin”
-The Chronological Tour
-The Anthological Tour
- The Topic-based Tour
The Chronological Tour
The
Protogeometric
style,
1050-900 B.C.
The
Geometric
style,
900-770 B.C.
The
Orientalizing
style,
725-625 B.C.
Black figure,
620-480 B.C.
Development of vase painting
(Ancient Greece)
Red figure,
480-320 B.C.
The Protogeometric style
The Geometric style
Pisside, 975-950 B.C.
Pedestaled krater,
800-770 B.C.
The Orientalizing style
The Corinthian style
Corinthian alabastron,
660 B.C.
The Athenian
(or Protoattic) style
Burial urn for a child,
650 B.C.
The Classical period
Black figure
Black Figured Neck
Amphora, 510-500 B.C.
Red figure
Reveller and courtesan
(by Euphronios),
500-480 B.C.
The Anthological Tour
(Egyptians)
The key to understand the Egyptian world
The Rosetta stone, 196 B.C.
The importance of Pharaohs
Plaster cast of a relief from the temple of Beit el-Wali
The representation
of
everyday life
Nebamun hunting in the
marshes, 1350 B.C.
The mummy of the priest Hornedjitef
Canopic jars,
21st Dynasty
The concept
of the
Afterlife
The importance of animals in Egyptian civilization
Mummy of a young bull, 30 B.C.
The Topic-based Tour
(Topic: The Representation of the
Divine in different civilizations)
Hawaiian war god Ku-ka'ili-moku, 1790-1819
Egyptians: Visualizing a god as human and animal
The goddess Bastet, 664-630 B.C.
Depicting and communicating with spirits: Shamans
Shaman’s spirit helper from the other world,
19th century
Non-figurative representations of a
god: Islam, Judaism
A geometric pattern symbolising the divine
A god seen as human:
Christianism
14th century ivory with Virgin and
Christ
Mythology and ritual:
Hinduism
Hindu deity Shiva,
Chola period (9th-13th century)