This was made in 1345 BC

>this was made in 1345 BC

Why do most ancient Egyptian sculptures look nowhere near as good as this? It looks on par with classical Greek stuff made almost a millennia later.

Akhenaton was for realism because he undetstood theres only one God (Christ/Aton)

Realism wasn't part of the Egyptian style. Its the same reason Late Roman and Byzantine sculpture was also less realistic than its predecessors, its just wasn't in style. Also, this was near Egypt absolute height, maybe 100 years before its peak.

>dude realism LMAO
because why wouldn’t you want to symbolise how great a ruler you are

No, it was its absolute peak during that time they had Syria under their control too since Thutmoses conquered all that shit 100 years or so before

Imagine sniffing her sandal feet and licking her cunt.

The ultimate ancient MILF.

Egypt was at its cultural peak right before the beginning of the Bronze age collapse, their control of Syria is generally not considered their "peak" in power or prestige. In subsequent years they were the bread basket of teh Mediterranean, sending grain to Palestinian coastal cities, Ugarit and other Syrian coastal cities, as well as to Hittite polities.

You do realize that there are different levels of hardness in stone making some easier to carve than others and that not all pieces are meant to express realism?

Late Roman art just looked like garbage, nothing to do with whether it was "realistic" or not. Imperial era sculptures weren't realistic either, only Republican ones were.

You're an idiot and you have NO IDEA what you're talking about. Republican era sculpture was realistic, It was idealized like Greek art but it had realist proportions. The Imperial era realism had to do with non-idealized depictions, showing defects and scars was seen as a virtue, but this was a fad that only last a century. Late roman art became increasing stylized...with bigger eyes and more references to symbolism and such. There are many individual examples of returns to realism during the late roman period that show there wasn't a degradation of artistic ability, just a change in culture. Eventually that manifested in an actual lack of schools of realistic art in the empire.

>Republican era sculpture
>idealized like Greek art

What the fuck am I reading. It was Augustus who started with the idealism faggotry. There's not a single Imperial era sculpture that isn't highly idealized. Just compare the difference between a sculpture of Scipio made during the Republican era and one made during the Imperial era.

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Either way it was a fad that lasted barely a century. Go ahead, find earlier roman sculpture...its highly idealized....that doesn't change the fact that its realistic.

This is specific to the atheist period where the new Pharoah demanded that the artisans give up formalism for more or less anatomically realistic depictions.

It should also be noted that the Greek style was not realism either.
They avoided the normal figure consistently placing the head of the subject on the body of a body builder.
Mainly because they were focused on depicting physical perfection in the individual
Where as Egyptians were focused on depicting a constant unchanging will prevailing upon the group.

Realism and Idealism are not mutually exclusive.

>atheist

You mean Atonist

>nowhere near as good as this
I won't bother to post pictures of Egyptian statues and art... Do you have any ewample of non realistic stuff in Egyptian art?

Egyptian statues were the most realistic around for millenia

It is Imperial era sculpture that is idealized like Greek art, not Republican. Augustus started that trend. Before that, Roman sculptures looked modest.

Greek art wasn't idealized anymore with Hellenism it started being non idealized

Getting sick of memes.

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