Beauty is More Than Skin Deep: Depictions of Aging Women in Ancient Egy

steady is More Than Skin Deep Depictions of Aging Women in Ancient Egyptian ArtIn Ancient Egypt, women are typically shown as new-fangled and beautiful while more(prenominal) mature, older women are very seldom depicted. For men of the time, senescence is shown in art more frequently beca lend oneself it was a positive aspect of manhood. For ancient Egyptians, art wasnt just do for pleasure or beauty it was a very practical and necessity part of the day-to-day lives of the Egyptians. In art, Egyptian belief was that people demand to be depicted at their peak of energy and beauty in order to remain that authority forever when they cross over into the afterlife. In most ancient Egyptian art, male ageing is represented more frequently than women since it was considered a positive image for men. Egyptian art seldom depicted older women or women growing older neither maternalism nor the spreading waistline that many women must have had after historic period of bearing childre n is part of the image. However, there are examples that feature elements of ageing that are linked to elite and non-elite women alike. These demonstrations of older women are possibly an attempt to externally show on women the authority and honor in the same way the image of male ageing is represented. Though it is rarely depicted, we can use art to trace the portrayal of older women and women growing older in Egypt, from the Third Dynasty down to the end of the New Kingdom. As women age, their bodies change in various ways such as the development of wrinkles and white hair. However, Egyptian art did not necessarily combine these features in a consistent, determined order when they show women as they grew older. This may reflect the reality of the ageing process people do not always age in the sa... .... Pharaohs of the sun Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen. Boston Museum of Fine Arts in association with Bulfinch weightlift/Little, Brown and Co., 1999.Lesko, Barbara, Queen Kham erernebty II and Her Sculpture, in Ancient Egyptian and Mediterranean Studies, (Providence, Rhode Island, 1998), 158. Moussa, Ahmed M., and Hartwig Altenmller, The Tomb of Nefer and Ka-Hay (Mainz, 1971), pg. 33.Robins, Gay. Women in ancient Egypt. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1993. 180. Robins, Gay. While the Woman Looks On sex inequality in the New Kingdom. KMT 1/3 (1990), 21. Roth, Ann Macy, Father Earth, become Sky Ancient Egyptian Beliefs about Conception and Fertility,194-96 Toivari-Viitala, J. Women at Deir el-Medina. A Study of the Status and Roles of the Female Inhabitants in the Workmens Community during the Ramesside Period. Leiden, 2001.