Amarna art

Amarna art

The Ancient Egyptian art method renowned as Amarna Art was a method of art that was taken up in the Amarna Period (i.e. throughout and just after the reign of Akhenaten in the late Eighteenth Dynasty), and is noticeably distinct from more accepted Egyptian art styles.

It is distinguished by a sense of action and undertaking in images, with numbers having increased heads, numerous numbers overlapping and numerous scenes engaged and crowded. Also, the human body is depicted distinctly in Amarna method artwork than Egyptian art on the whole. For example, numerous portrayals of Akhenaten's body give him distinctly feminine ...