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Genre/Form: | Exhibition catalogues Exhibition catalogs Exhibition catalogues (form) Exhibitions Art Portraits |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Arnold, Dorothea. Royal women of Amarna. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, ©1996 (OCoLC)605989162 |
Named Person: | Amenhotep, King of Egypt; Aménophis, roi d'Égypte; Amenhotep, King of Egypt.; Akhenaton, King of Egypt |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Dorothea Arnold; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
ISBN: | 0870998161 9780870998164 0870998188 9780870998188 0810965046 9780810965041 |
OCLC Number: | 35292712 |
Notes: | Exhibition catalogue for an exhibition running from Oct. 8, 1996 through Feb. 2, 1997, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Description: | xxi, 169 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm |
Contents: | Chronology: the Amarna period -- Genealogy: the royal family of Amarna -- Map of Egypt -- The religion of Amarna / James P. Allen -- The royal women of Amarna: who was who / L. Green -- An artistic revolution: the early years of King Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten / Dorothea Arnold -- The workshop of the sculptor Thutmose / Dorothea Arnold -- Aspects of the royal female image during the Amarna period / Dorothea Arnold -- Youth and old age: the post-Amarna period / Dorothea Arnold. |
Responsibility: | Dorothea Arnold with contributions by James P. Allen and L. Green. |
Abstract:
During a brief seventeen-year reign (ca. 1353-1336 B.C.) the pharaoh Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten, founder of the world's first known monotheistic religion, devoted his life and the resources of his kingdom to the worship of the Aten (a deity symbolized by the sun disk) and thus profoundly affected history and the history of art. The move to a new capital, Akhenaten/Amarna, brought essential changes in the depictions of royal women. It was in their female imagery, above all, that the artists of Amarna departed from the traditional iconic representations to emphasize the individual, the natural, in a way unprecedented in Egyptian art. A picture of exceptional intimacy emerges from the sculptures and reliefs of the Amarna Period. Akhenaten, his wife Nefertiti, and their six daughters are seen in emotional interdependence even as they participate in cult rituals. The female principle is emphasized in astonishing images: the aging Queen Mother Tiye, the mysterious Kiya, and Nefertiti, whose painted limestone bust in Berlin is the best-known work from ancient Egypt - perhaps from all antiquity. The workshop of the sculptor Thutmose - one of the few artists of the period whose name is known to us - revealed a treasure trove when it was excavated in 1912. An entire creative process is traced through an examination of the work of Thutmose and his assistants, who lived in a highly structured environment. All was left behind when Amarna was abandoned after the death of Akhenaten and the return to religious orthodoxy.
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