The Royal Women of Amarna

The Royal Women of Amarna
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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages : 193
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ISBN-10 : 9780870998164
ISBN-13 : 0870998161
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Book Synopsis The Royal Women of Amarna by : Dorothea Arnold

Download or read book The Royal Women of Amarna written by Dorothea Arnold and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1996 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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