Seminarium PCMA: „Hatshepsut’s artists”

Na kolejnym seminarium PCMA z serii „Current research at Deir el-Bahari” dr Anastasiia Stupko-Lubczynska (CAŚ UW) wygłosi wykład: „Hatshepsut’s artists”.

Abstrakt: „In Ancient Egypt, the authors are rarely connected to their works. However, the latest research demonstrates that the initial assumptions about the anonymity of Egyptian art as a whole are becoming obsolete; examples are becoming quite numerous, for instance, of private tombs that have their leading artists identified. Still, with large-scale projects, such as temples, this anonymity is often an effect of workshop settings and diversification of tasks imposed, again, by the scale. In other words, the authors dissolve in their collective endeavour.

Yet for Hatshepsut times (ca. 1500 BCE), there is an abundance of sources indicating the involvement of various people in the construction projects commissioned by the state. The focus of this talk will be on Hatshepsut’s mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari, and on Hatshepsut’s courtiers supposed to be supervising the temple construction and designing its decoration. Evidence of their participation found within the temple, as well as in their monuments will be collated and examined, including newly discovered data within the temple interpreted as a “self-portrait in assistenza”. Against this background, a long-accepted and widely commented view of Senenmut being the chief architect of Hatshepsut’s monument in Deir el-Bahari will be revisited.”