8 set 2490 ano antes da era comum - Menkaura and Queen
Descrição:
Date: 2,490 BCE ~ 2,472 BCE
Artist: unkown
Medium: Greywacke
Location:
original: Valley Temple, Giza
current: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Function:
- Communicates the divinity & absolute power of the ruler
- Hierarchy of scale further emphasizes his power over the Egyptian people
- to reach the afterlife
Form:
- carved greywacke figures
- backed into stone wall
- both have individualized & youthful features
- both are nude in the upper body
- both are idealized
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Data:
8 set 2490 ano antes da era comum
Agora
~ 4518 years ago
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