Topic: The role/purpose of the depiction of women in Ancient Egyptian Art
Thesis: Although women and feminism were often overlooked in Egyptian art, the very presence of a woman alone was necessary for the art to contain true meaning.
The ways I will go about proving my statement
- depicting how the pharaohs headress resembled feminine features. I will propose the reason for that would be that in the Egyptian subconscious people needed something more to respect than just pure male dominance. The famine headress, and the skirts was a symbol of the understanding human side that only feminism can bring to the table.
- Depicting women in everyday life. Women weren’t always written off of all the art work for ancient Egypt. some pieces would show women dancing joyously together. other works would show a queen beside her pharaoh husband holding their child. These depictions are necessary to show that ancient Egypt didn’t just consist of the conquering of other nations and how strong the pharaoh was. On the other hand it displayed the need for family life and how beautiful it is. Again something that could have only been displayed with the presence of a woman.
- we will focus on the Queen Nefertiti there were many queens in ancient Egyptian history, but Nefertiti is the the default queen that we think of. the reason being she as a queen arguably contributed more to ancient Egypt legacy than some other kings and pharaohs.
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