Sculpture returned to the idealistic traditional forms of the Old Kingdom in the early New Kingdom. Kings and queens were depicted by showing their mannerisms and softening their features.
This can be seen in the exquisite statues of Queen Hatshepsut and her stepson Tuthmosis the Third. Hatshepsut is usually depicted as a male, wearing the royal kilt, but with facial features that reveal the beauty of a woman with strong personality. She is portrayed with full cheeks, the long cosmetic lines of wide eyes, an expressive mouth, and an aquiline nose.
Tuthmosis the Third shared some of these characteristics and it is believed that Hatshepsut's statues were usurped, or taken as his own, by Tuthmosis the Third. This could have been done by making a slight change in the hieroglyphic signs of their names.
The statue of Isis, mother of Tuthmosis the Third, shows feminine features, very different from those of Hatshepsut .
This can be seen in the exquisite statues of Queen Hatshepsut and her stepson Tuthmosis the Third. Hatshepsut is usually depicted as a male, wearing the royal kilt, but with facial features that reveal the beauty of a woman with strong personality. She is portrayed with full cheeks, the long cosmetic lines of wide eyes, an expressive mouth, and an aquiline nose.
Tuthmosis the Third shared some of these characteristics and it is believed that Hatshepsut's statues were usurped, or taken as his own, by Tuthmosis the Third. This could have been done by making a slight change in the hieroglyphic signs of their names.
The statue of Isis, mother of Tuthmosis the Third, shows feminine features, very different from those of Hatshepsut .
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