Amarna Palace Paintings, Volume 78Egypt Exploration Society, 2007 - 386 pagine The City of El-Amarna (Akhetaten, "The Horizon of Aten'), the capital and residence of the heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten, is a site of unique interest. Not only is it the only major Egyptian settlement to have been preserved to the point where it can be largely reconstructed, but it has the unique distinction of being a time-capsule located firmly at the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty. The religious revolution of Akhenaten brought significant changes of emphasis and iconography, some of them grotesque, but many characterized by a vigorous and luminous naturalism which give the art of the period a freshness and immediacy which has few parallels at any other stage of Pharaonic civilization. Fran Weatherhead's volume is devoted to the study of one of the most important aspects of this artistic tradition: the large corpus of painting which has largely lain either unpublished or only partially known to the scholarly world. In a painstaking and thorough assessment she has worked through all the surviving documentation and has been able to produce an outstanding study of the material, frequently providing new insights even into pieces which have long been known. |
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The Great Palace | 1 |
The South Harim | 31 |
The rest of the Palace | 57 |
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Accession number Akhenaten Amarna Amarna art Ashmolean Museum black line block-border blue band blue papyrus bouquets Cairo Museum Cairo panels cavetto chequer cm Fig cm high cm wide COA I plan copy corner cornflowers Corridor H cubicles dado Davies Davies's decoration depictions doorway drawn duck east wall edge Egyptian excavation photograph facsimile NRP false-door figure Floral/Fruit Frieze fragments showing Frieze group Green Room height Hypostyle Hall King's House Lavers's reconstruction layer Liverpool Museum lotus flowers Malkata Maru-Aten Maximum width Nefertiti North Palace North Riverside Palace North-East Court orpiment outlined painted pavements painted plaster paintwork papyrus papyrus clump papyrus flowers Pavement fragments Pendlebury Petrie Museum Petrie's pieces possibly Present location Princesses panel probably royal shown South Harim south wall striped frame survived Swansea Museum Throne Room tombs traces unknown Wall Paintings Water-court waterbank design Weatherhead west wall yellow band yellow ground