Recherches sur le portrait dans les civilisations de l'Antiquité. Représentation individuelle et individualisation de la représentation
175-196
International
0221-5896
Strasbourg
France
[en] Egyptology ; Ancient Egyptian Art History ; Portraiture
[en] Ancient Egyptian art’s concern with individualized human representation has generated much debate among Egyptologists about the very existence of portraiture in pharaonic society. The issue has often – if not always – been thought in terms of opposition between portrait and ideal image, being a major topic in the broader question of realism and formal relation to reality in Ancient Egyptian art. After a brief analysis of the problem from a theoretical point of view, the article considers the concepts involved in the notion of portrait within the context of Ancient Egyptian thought. Then, a few significant cases selected in royal statuary are investigated in order to elucidate the motives and modalities of the interaction between portrait and ideal image in Ancient Egyptian individualized representations
[Université de Liège - ULg > Département des sciences historiques > Archéologie égyptienne >]
