Hatshepsut

an artist whose name is unknown. The name of the sculpture is called "Hatshepsut in a Devotional Attitude" which was created during the New Kingdom in ca. 1479-1458 B.C. The medium that was used to create this sculpture is granite and paint. This statue was one of a pair that stood on either....Hatshepsut's temple at Deir el-Bahri. The pose, with both hands open and resting on the front of the kilt, is a devotional....Middle Kingdom pharaoh Senwosret III who lived some three hundred years before Hatshepsut. I think the subject of this piece is to show how powerful Hatshepsut is as the ruler of Egypt. This paper will employ a close analysis of the Ancient Egyptian Art sculpture, "Hatshepsut in a Devotional…

Patronage Who commissioned the building? The mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut located beneath cliffs of Deir el-Bahri on the west bank of the Nile was commissioned by the pharaoh from whom the buildings name sake was derived – Queen Maatkare Hatshepsut. As the first known female monarch throughout history and the first recorded female patron of prolific architectural monuments and artistic ventures her place in history holds considerable weight within the lineage of architectural patrons not…

Queen Maatkare Hatshepsut, Pharaoh of Egypt during the 18th dynasty, from 1473 BC to 1458 BC, was a well-known female ruler of ancient Egypt. Her story is interesting in Egyptian history, Hatshepsut reigned longer than other female pharaohs of her time. Thutmose I, had many wives, and many children. However, Hatshepsut was the only child, of Thutmose I and his main wife Ahmose. Hatshepsut, was the favorite child, over her other brothers. She was beautiful, smart, and had an alluring personality…

This paper will employ close visual analysis of the Ancient Egyptian sculpture, Large Seated Statue of Hatshepsut dated 1473-1458 B.C, Dynasty 18 describing how the pose of the figure, the queens facial expressions/ features, the portrayal as a male and the medium of the work relate to the queens confidence in her royal power, her achievements and her adaptions to conform to the conventions (art and Egyptian ideology of kinship) of this period. Upon entering the gallery at Metropolitan museum…

Hatshepsut is considered Egypt’s most successful and outstanding pharaohs. Based on my reading of this book and further research, Hatshepsut was an admiration and inspiring woman during her involvement with Ancient Egypt. She knew from the moment that she was born that she must have complete control over the kingdom that would one day be hers. Hatshepsut was only sixteen years old when her life purpose was initially over. She no longer had a reason to reign or control the kingdom that she…

Queen Hatshepsut- Queen Hatshepsut ruled from 1505-1485 B.C., she was “the first Warrior Queen in African history… [and] her reign was one of the most outstanding in the 18th Dynasty of Egypt.” The journey to the throne for Queen Hatshepsut began in tragedy. Hatshepsut was the only one of her four siblings to live past childhood and, her father, King Thothmes developed paralysis weakening him. As a result of this, he appointed Hatshepsut as his chief aid. Before he passed away, Queen Hatshepsut…

Hatshepsut Seated (ca, 1473-1458), of the first major female Pharaoh to reign Egypt, depicts her occupying the throne. The artist unspecified, she is shown a lone figure sitting in a non atypical representational manner. This style in which Hatshepsut Seated is modeled is not so unlike other works for male pharaohs, symbolic of her coronation to power. One might assume that the work represents a mere continuation to the stylistic traditions of Ancient Egyptian art. However, the de rigueur…

Hatshepsut Hatshepsut was the first female pharaoh of Egypt. She reigned between 1473 and 1458 B.C. Hatshepsut and her sister Nefrubity were daughters to the Pharoah Thutmose l and his wife Ahmose. Thutmose expanded the territory under Egyptian rule. After her Hatshepsut’s father died the throne was passed down to her half brother and also husband, Thutmose ll. In ancient times it was normal to marry within your family. They had a daughter named Neferure. Thutmose ll died and the throne had to…

History project A: Hatshepsut- Although the status of women in ancient Egypt was higher than in any other ancient civilization, the notion that a woman could be king was abhorrent to the Egyptians. Yet, a woman did become king and not just an ordinary king. Her name was Hatshepsut and she ruled as pharaoh for fifteen years. Sadly, after her death the Egyptians, who were a deeply conservative people, obliterated her memory so that later pharaohs such as Ramses II and Cleopatra would have been…

selecting which parts of history are most relevant to teach. So it is not abnormal that many people today are uneducated about Egypt’s first female pharaoh, Queen Hatshepsut. Against a backdrop of pre determined gender roles and political nepotism, like most of the world then and even now, 15th century B.C Egypt was notorious for exalting men as leaders of the land. As proper gender specific representation was a major role in Egyptian culture, it was widely controversial for a woman to wear the…