The famous bust of Nefertiti in Berlin is hailed for showing her marvelous beauty which stands in hard contrast to the reputation of the Amarna art of showing a caricature-like exaggerated realism, that has even been described as deliberately depicting the people ugly. Examining the criteria of beauty for the artistic representation of royal women especially in sculpture from the Old Kingdom until the mid of the 18th Dynasty just before the Amarna period reveals the prevalence of an interesting beauty ideal. Nefertiti's famous bust doesn't meet these beauty standards.
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