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Amenhotep IV Akhenaten. Tyrant or Visionary? Continuity and Change. Visionary. Tyrant. Someone who is characterized by new ideas. An oppressive, harsh ruler who governs without restrictions. The Original Main God. Amun. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Amenhotep IV Akhenaten
Tyrant or Visionary?Continuity and Change
Someone who is characterized by new ideasVISIONARY
TYRANTAn oppressive, harsh ruler who governs without
restrictions
The Original Main God
Amun
Penn Museum, Amarna: Ancient Egypt’s Place in the Sun, N.d., http://www.penn.museum/sites/amarna/about2.shtml (Feb. 29, 2012). British Museum, Ancient Egypt, Gods and Goddesses, 1999, http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/gods/explore/main.html (Feb. 29, 2012).
The New Main God
BBC History, Ancient Egyptian Gods Gallery, Aten, 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/gods_gallery_11.shtml (Feb. 29, 2012); British Museum, Ancient Egypt, Gods and Goddesses, 1999, http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/gods/explore/main.html (Feb. 29, 2012).
Aten – the Sun Disk with protruding rays that have hands
The Family
Kate Spence, Akhenaten and the Amarna Period, BBC History, 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/akhenaten_01.shtml (Feb. 29, 2012); Brooklyn Museum, Statue of Nykara and his Family, N.d., http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3544/Statue_of_Nykara_and_his_Family (Sept. 26, 2013).
The family of Akhenaten and Nefertiti
Nykara and his family, Old Kingdom
Dad
Metropolitan Museum, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, Head of Amenhotep III, 2012, http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/56.138 (Feb. 29, 2012).
Head of Amenhotep III, father of Akhenaten
Nature
Metropolitan Museum, Heillbrunn Timeline of Art History Akhenaten Sacrificing a Duck, 2012 (Feb. 29, 2012).
Roofless Temple at Amarna
University College London, Digital Egypt for Universities, Amarna: the main temple, 2002, http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/amarna/temple.html (Feb. 29, 2012).
Temple Model
Model of the Aten Temple at Amarna
Amarna Project, Tour of the Model, 2010, http://www.amarnaproject.com/pages/model_of_the_city/ (Feb. 29, 2012).
Wife
Metropolitan Museum, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, Relief of Nefertiti, 2012, http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/61.117 (Feb. 29, 2012).
Exaggerated style
Natural Style
Natural, subtle, in perspective
Metropolitan Museum, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, A Royal Hand, 2012, http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1985.328.1 (Feb. 29, 2012).
Son
Head of Tutankhamun under the hand of Amun
Metropolitan Museum, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, Head of Tutankhamun, 2012, http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/50.6 (Feb. 29, 2012).
Father and Son?Father and Son?
National Geographic, Photo Gallery: Who Was King Tut’s Father? 2010, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/photogalleries/tut-pictures/photo2.html (Feb. 29, 2012).