Why do all the relief portraits and drawings or Akhenaten and his family look so weird?
It's almost like they don't look human, but some bizarre, alien like creatures?
Did everyone hate Akhenaten so much so it was their way to get back at him by portraying him as some fucked up Cthulhu creature or what?
>>842557
Possibly an artistic convention in order to make them look otherworldly and thus in close connection to Aten.
>>842557
YOUR AESTHETIC SENSIBILITY IS SKEWED.
look at those big ass hips
>>842599
HIGH TEST
>>842602
except that's a man...
>>842557
WE WUZ ALIONZ N SHIET
>>842599
She had big butt and boobs, and no beard, surely it is not Akhenaten, but a woman.
>>842620
>depictions of Akhenaten's body give him distinctly feminine qualities such as large hips, prominent breasts, and a larger stomach and thighs
>>842620
Yes, Akhenaten had a beard.
>>842626
Is Akhematen had hermaphrodite gender?
>>842557
How is this any different than the other Egyptian drawings?
>>844182
There is actually lot of variation in Egyptian "drawings" once you know where to look. For example, the types of relief.
>>844182
Egyptian art was usually either completely idealized or it was somewhat realistic and individualistic but still pretty idealized.
On the other hand Akhenaten's stuff makes him look deformed, especially the stuff from later in his reign. I'm guessing he probably was a bit inbred, but the art exaggerated and emphasizes his deformities. That said, not all of it was like that and much of Egypt's best art was produced under his and Tutankhamen's reign (the Amarna period), including the bust of Nefertiti.
>>844240
I was under the impression that literally nothing of significance was produced under Tutankhamun's reign.
>>844240
Here's one of the more normal looking depictions of him.
>>844242
He didn't do much himself, but the Amarna period and it's art still continued somewhat under his reign.
There's disagreement though over how much was actually produced for him and how much was produced for his father but ended up being tossed into his tomb, so you might be right, but I think it's unrealistic to imagine all artistic production would come to a halt just because the ruler changed. Keep in mind there was also plenty of art produced for patrons other than the pharaoh as well.
>>844268
man... what a time to be alive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter_syndrome
>During puberty, the physical traits of the syndrome become more evident; because these boys do not produce as much testosterone as other boys, they have a less muscular body, less facial and body hair, and broader hips. As teens, XXY males may develop breast tissue[13] and also have weaker bones, and a lower energy level than other males.[12]
>>842557
For a pharaoh to allow to be portraited like that, with defects and all, tells us of his great humility, possibly stemming from his great piety and faith.
He must have been a very nice (and naive as well) dude.
>>844214
>There is a lot of variation in Egyptian "drawings"
Wow, it's almost like the civilization lasted for two thousand years or something.
>Draw a stupid pepe meme and post the image
>3000k years later someone on a post-Finnish pacemaker forum posts the old image.
>'Why did this drawing look so weird what's this green alien creature?
>>844613
This and nothing else.
Tut also has signs of the disorder, because his father and mother were brother and sister (according to Hawass so take that as you will). Inbreeding was common for all Egyptian royalty so if that was the only cause, this style would've showed up long before the New Kingdom period.
>>844629
Just like guys with vasectomies never have kids by accident?
There's exceptions to everything in life.
You guys ever heard the myth from Spain about a king who had a lisp so he made his entire court speak Spanish with one, and now the entire country pronounces with a lisp?
That's about what this Amarna thing is. It's thought to be an artistic style brought into fashion everywhere to disguise the pharaohs own deformities.
>>844653
Make it five thousand.
>>844634
What a down to earth kind of guy he was!
>>842627
>not knowing pharaohs wore false beards
>>847308
Holy shit, they did?
Why?
>>848933
Just a part of the pageantry of kingship and religious tradition. Upper-class Egyptian society, including the pharaoh, was for the most part clean-shaven, but Osiris was generally depicted with a beard of the same style the pharaohs wore, and the pharaohs' ceremonial (false) beards reflected their symbolic associations with Osiris. The beards were generally passed down to the next pharaoh, and even the female pharaohs wore them (see statues of Hatshepsut).
>>842609
>except that's a man...
Only the highest of test need apply
>>844244
is that a reconstruction?
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/57.180.79/
