<P> Egyptian paintings are painted in such a way to show a profile view and a side view of the animal or person at the same time . For example, the painting to the right shows the head from a profile view and the body from a frontal view . Their main colors were red, blue, green, gold, black and yellow . </P> <P> Paintings showing scenes of hunting and fishing can have lively close - up landscape backgrounds of reeds and water, but in general Egyptian painting did not develop a sense of depth, and neither landscapes nor a sense of visual perspective are found, the figures rather varying in size with their importance rather than their location . </P> <P> The monumental sculpture of ancient Egypt's temples and tombs is world - famous, but refined and delicate small works exist in much greater numbers . The Egyptians used the technique of sunk relief, which is best viewed in sunlight for the outlines and forms to be emphasized by shadows . The distinctive pose of standing statues facing forward with one foot in front of the other was helpful for the balance and strength of the piece . The use of this singular pose was used early on in the history of Egyptian art and well into the Ptolemaic period, although seated statues were particularly common as well . Egyptian pharaohs were always regarded as gods, but other deities are much less common in large statues, except when they represent the pharaoh as another deity; however the other deities are frequently shown in paintings and reliefs . The famous row of four colossal statues outside the main temple at Abu Simbel each show Rameses II, a typical scheme, though here exceptionally large . Most larger sculptures survive from Egyptian temples or tombs; massive statues were built to represent gods and pharaohs and their queens, usually for open areas in or outside temples . The very early colossal Great Sphinx of Giza was never repeated, but avenues lined with very large statues including sphinxes and other animals formed part of many temple complexes . The most sacred cult image of a god in a temple, usually held in the naos, was in the form of a relatively small boat or barque holding an image of the god, and apparently usually in precious metal--none have survived . </P> <P> By Dynasty IV (2680--2565 BC) at the latest the idea of the Ka statue was firmly established . These were put in tombs as a resting place for the ka portion of the soul, and so we have a good number of less conventionalized statues of well - off administrators and their wives, many in wood as Egypt is one of the few places in the world where the climate allows wood to survive over millennia, and many block statues . The so - called reserve heads, plain hairless heads, are especially naturalistic, though the extent to which there was real portraiture in ancient Egypt is still debated . </P>

This was perhaps the best known sculpture of egyptian art
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