The Art Of Nefertti Bust In Ancient Egyptian Art

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Ancient Egyptian art has been admired for many years for its strength and powerful beauty. The thought of how humans, at such a time, had the intelligence and manpower to create the things that they did is truly amazing. Nefertiti Bust has always been one of the many popular pieces, an icon of a woman’s beauty captured. Such as Khafre Enthroned is for its masculinity and powerful leadership. These two pieces of art are symbolic o their time. Similar in many ways, but various all at once. Nefertiti Bust a beautiful work of art of a Royal woman from the ancient Egyptian time is from around the time of c 1353-1336 BCE. Tutmose, a sculptor from that time, created this piece of art of the royal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaton with great effort and an extraordinary eye. She was discovered in 1912 inside of the workplace of Tutmose along with drawling’s and other items connected to the royal family. The artwork is of painted limestone, most likely because it was convenient at the location, sitting at nineteen to twenty inches tall and forty-four pounds. Head of a gorgeous woman with a long graceful neck, symbolizing pronounced pride. Wearing the cup crown (headdress) along with the matching colors of the collar, of blue, red, gold, and green. The beautiful repetitive pattern of her collar and headdress shows great detail and time Tutmose took in creating her portrait statue. Her noticeably missing left eye people wondering if this was on purpose, such as if she had lost her ye in real life, or …show more content…

It is unknown what had happen to her after Pharaoh Akhenaton, passed away. She might have ecame a pharoh herself to the same people or others; maybe she changed her name, or even died. Nefertiti and her husband were known through out history for creating a new form of woreship to the “Aten” or sun disk, called Atenism.

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