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The Great Elemental Dance

Colossal statue of Akhenaten

Known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV.

This statue is originally from the Temple of the Aten at Karnak. The king standing, wearing a kilt that hangs below his swollen stomach. It is tied with a belt, decorated with his royal cartouche. He wears the Pschent, Double Crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, as well as the Khat-headdress. 

In his hands he holds the crook and flail, symbols of power and authority. His features are presented in the typical style of the Amarna Period, with narrow slanting eyes, a long thin face, and thick lips.

Landscape of the Alps, 1553, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Double Dream of Spring, 1915, Giorgio de Chirico

二代目市川八百藏・二代目中島三甫右衛門・三代目市川海老藏・九代目市村羽左衛門|Kabuki Actors Ichikawa Yaozō II, Nakajima Mihoemon II, Ichikawa Ebizō III, and Ichimura Uzaemon IX in the Play Sugawara’s Secrets of Calligraphy (Sugawara denju tenarai kagami) by Katsukawa Shunshō, Asian Art