egypt-museum:Painting of Lady Tjepu One of the most remarkable paintings to survive from ancien
egypt-museum:Painting of Lady Tjepu One of the most remarkable paintings to survive from ancient Egypt, this depiction of the noblewoman Tjepu came from a tomb built for her son Nebamun and a sculptor named Ipuky. Egyptian artists usually did not depict individuals as they truly looked, but rather as eternally youthful, lavishly dressed, and in an attitude of repose.Tjepu was about forty years old when this painting was executed, but she is shown in what was the height of youthful fashion during the reign of Amunhotep III: a perfumed cone on her heavy wig, a delicate side tress, and a semitransparent, fringed linen dress.New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Amunhotep III, ca 1391-1353 BC. Limestone, gesso and pigment. Now in the Brooklyn Museum. 65.197 -- source link