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Amarna artistic style |
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The Amarna artistic style can trace it's origins back to the
reign of Akhenaten's father, Amenhotep III. This saw the first
deviations from the traditional art towards a more natural art.
This included showing the King and his family for the first time
in informal poses.
This photo shows the head of a colossal statue of Amenhotep
III from the British Museum.
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This statue from the Luxor museum is typical of Amarna art.
The exaggerated features are present in many surviving statues
of Akhenaten.
The style developed throughout Akhenaten's reign, although
interestingly as his rule drew to a close the statues began to
return to a more traditional, and less extreme, representation
of the Pharaoh.
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The extremes of the Amarna style are perhaps best typified
by these two statues from the Cairo museum. Both show the king
in a typical pose, but in the statue on the right the roundness
of the hips is exaggerated to a point where the gender of the
king becomes unclear. Notice also the lack of any 'external organs'
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