Ancient Egyptian style

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Upper part of a statue of King Menkaure and the queen. He reigned circa 2490-2472 BCE under the 4th Dynasty of the Old Kingdom. His name is most famously associated with the third and smallest of the Giza Pyramids, which was built to be his tomb. The two figures stand side-by-side with the queen embracing the king, but neither shows any emotion to the other, while they both gaze into eternity. The sculpture is made of greywacke, which is a dark coarse-grained sandstone. This masterwork (11.1738) is now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA. Photo: The Museum of Fine Arts.

 
It is useful to recognize that the essence of ancient Egyptian style in most respects was set during the early Old Kingdom, with full maturity reached in the 4th Dynasty.

 
"The Old Kingdom, which lasted for 500 years around the middle of the third millennium BC, did not encompass all the accomplishments of ancient Egyptian civilization. But in all essentials it was the matrix of the entire culture. In statecraft, religion, science, architecture, sculpture, low-relief and painting, in writing and thinking, the innovators of the Old Kingdom developed characteristic ideas and patterns which were later modified over 2,000 years, but never fundamentally changed.

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