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Hatshepsut From Queen to Pharaoh

By Ed. , Roehrig , Catharine H. , with Renée Dreyfus and Cathleen A. Keller

Book information

Publisher
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Year
2005
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
63 MB (65886593 bytes)
Pages
\358
Topic
Art
Time added
2016-09-19 00:29:09
Искусство и искусствоведение;Мировая художественна

Description

Cleopatra may be the most famous woman of ancient Egypt, but far more significant was Hatshepsut, a female pharaoh who reigned for nearly twenty years in the fifteenth century B.C., during the early period of the New Kingdom. After acting as regent for her young nephew-stepson Thutmose III, Hatshepsut assumed the title of king and exercised the full powers of the throne as senior co-ruler with Thutmose. In accordance with Egyptian ideology and representational tradition, she was often depicted as a male king. Hatshepsuts reign, fully accepted by a flourishing Egypt, introduced a period of immense artistic creativity. Some twenty years after her death, however, monuments bearing her image were ruthlessly defaced, and her name was erased from historical accounts.

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