Akhenaten

Examples of Akhenaten in the following topics:

• Akhenaton and the Amarna Period

  • Akhenaten was a pharaoh of the 18th dynasty who is best known for ushering in a distinctly new art style known as Amarna Art.
  • Akhenaten was a pharaoh of the 18th dynasty who was known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV.
  • In a relief of Akhenaten, he is shown with his primary wife, Nefertiti, and their children in an intimate setting.
  • Akhenaten represented in the typical Amarna period style.
  • This relief illustrates an intimate portrait of Akhenaten and his family in the Amarna style of art.

• The New Kingdom

  • It was ruled by pharaohs Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and Ramesses II.
  • The Eighteenth Dynasty, also known as the Thutmosid Dynasty, contained some of Egypt's most famous pharaohs, including Ahmose I, Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Amenhotep III, Akhenaten (c. 1353-1336 BCE) and his queen Nefertiti, and Tutankhamun.
  • One of the best-known Eighteenth Dynasty pharaohs is Amenhotep IV (c. 1353-1336 BCE), who changed his name to Akhenaten in honor of Aten and whose exclusive worship of the deity is often interpreted as the first instance of monotheism.
  • Akhenaten, born Amenhotep IV, was the son of Queen Tiye.

• Sculpture of the New Kingdom

  • The style of sculpture shifted drastically during the Amarna Period in the late Eighteenth Dynasty, when Pharaoh Akhenaten moved the capital to the city of Amarna.
  • For example, many depictions of Akhenaten's body show him with wide hips, a drooping stomach, thick lips, and thin arms and legs.
  • In a relief of Akhenaten, he is shown with his primary wife, Nefertiti, and their children in an intimate setting.
  • The figures are thought to be Akhenaten and Nefertiti, Smenkhkare and Meritaten, or Tutankhamen and Ankhesenamun.

• Painting of the New Kingdom

  • A significant change, however, occurred during the Amarna Period under the pharaoh Akhenaten (r. 1351–1334 BCE), when the body assumed a less idealized form.
  • For example, many depictions of Akhenaten's body show him with wide hips, a drooping stomach, thick lips, and thin arms and legs.

• Stelae of the Middle Kingdom

  • The most famous of these would be used at Amarna during the New Kingdom under Akhenaten.

• Tutankhamun and Ramses II

  • He is known for his rejection of the radical religious innovations introduced by his predecessor and father, Akhenaten.

• Ancient Egyptian Art

  • The style reflects Akhenaten's move to monotheism, but it disappeared after his death.

• Ancient Egyptian Religion

  • There was even a period of time where Egypt was monotheistic, under Pharaoh Akhenaten, and his patron god Aten.