Relief of Akhenaten from Amarna
A carved relief of Pharaoh Akhenaten from his capital at Amarna, Egypt, c. 1345 BC, now in Berlin's Neues Museum.
Akhenaten upended three thousand years of Egyptian religious tradition, closing the temples of Egypt's traditional gods and elevating the sun disc Aten as the sole object of worship. He abandoned Thebes for a purpose-built capital, Akhetaten, at the site now called Amarna, and the art of his reign broke sharply from convention: elongated faces, exaggerated hips, and unusually intimate family scenes replaced the idealized rigidity of earlier pharaonic imagery. The revolution died with him — his successors, including the young Tutankhamun, restored the old gods and worked to erase his memory. Read more in our article on Akhenaten and the Amarna Period.
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