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Chargement... The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egyptpar Dorothea Arnold
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. What wonderful books the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York produces! These are not just catalogs for the prestigious exhibitions it has on offer, but they also add a lot in terms of content. That is also the case here. The focus of this book is limited: the images and sculptures of women produced during the exceptional Amarna period, the period when the 'heretical' pharaoh Akhenaten was in power, roughly from 1350 to 1330 BCE. Apparently that was also a time of exceptional creativity, as evidenced by the rich collection of images discussed here. It also indicates that - despite the 'iconoclasm' that erupted after the reign of Akhenaten - a lot of material from that time has been preserved. More in my History account on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6243901765 ( ) Gedetailleerde studie van de manier waarop in de Amarnaperiode koninklijke vrouwen afgebeeld werden. Het gaat in de eerste plaats om werken die Nefertiti en haar dochters afbeelden. Arnold schetst de evolutie in de iconografie. Ze wijdt een uitgebreid hoofdstuk aan de workshop van de beeldhouwer Toetmosis in Amarna, waar enkele absolute topwerken - waaronder de beroemde buste van Nefertiti - teruggevonden werden. Dat veel werk maar fragmentair bewaard is, doet geen afbreuk aan de kwaliteit ervan. Het boek kan gratis gedownload worden van de website van het Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hoewel pdf minder tastbaar is dan papier, vond ik het prettig om te kunnen inzoomen op de afbeeldingen. Alleen jammer dat de tekst niet doorzocht kan worden. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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