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A few years ago I put together a
cross-cultural 'History of Design' timeline covering art and architecture from
prehistoric times to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Three years ago I painted pictures of some of the entries in the pages of that timeline.
Then I highlighted the illustrated entries
in the timeline to show where these ‘time capsules’ fit into the big picture.
Recently, I noticed that I’d left the
second Millennium BCE out of that series of paintings, so I have started it now.
I looked through my files to see what
paintings I might already have of that period… and found exactly one – Deir El-Bahri, as seen from Karnak. This painting is based on a photo of the mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri on the west bank of
the Nile. I like the idea that Hatshepsut’s temple lines up with the huge Karnak Temple
across the river, and took the photo from the entrance to Karnak.
In fact, you can barely see Deir el-Bahri from that point, and you can’t see
the Nile at all – but it seemed a good time for some artistic license.Starting next week, I’ll paint the other three highlighted entries in the
timeline above.
