Author : Dorothea Arnold,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Portrait sculpture, Ancient
ISBN : 9780870998164
The Royal Women of Amarna by Dorothea Arnold,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf
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.