Nefertiti body-painting by Amit Bar

More photos of this project at: https://amitbar.com/art/nefertiti Nefertiti (c. 1370 – c. 1330 BC) was an Egyptian queen. She and her husband Akhenaten were known for a religious revolution, in which they worshiped one god only (Wikipedia). Elle has been body-painted with diverse Egyptian hieroglyphs-figures did her beautiful dance to the music of Camille Saint-Saëns. These dance fragment from Bacchanale in Act III of “Samson and Delilah” has been played daily on the radio when I was a child, many years ago. Memories are dear to me! The drawings which were used as background were made by David Roberts in 1838: V0049316 Decorated pillars of the temple at Karnac, Thebes, Egypt. Co Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images [email protected] http://wellcomeimages.org Decorated pillars of the temple at Karnac, Thebes, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1846. 1846 By: David Robertsafter: Louis HaghePublished: 1846] Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses /by/4.0/ Background the rest of video: DAvid Roberts - Colossi, Thebes, Egypt. Birmingham Museums Trust @birminghammuseumstrust