Bista egipatske kraljice Nefertiti nastala u XX veku?

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Švajcarski istoričar umetnosti Henri Stierlin izneo je veoma kontroverznu tvrdnju. On smatra da je nastanak slavne biste, skoro ceo jedan vek smatrane remek delom "Akhenatonovog stila", zapravo posledica trivijalnih okolnosti:

Citat:But now doubt has been thrown on the authenticity of the painted limestone and plaster bust of the 18th dynasty Egyptian queen Nefertiti by two authors who claim she is a fake.

According to a Swiss art historian, the bust is less than 100 years old. Henri Stierlin has said the stunning work that will later this year be the showpiece of the city's reborn Neues Museum was created by an artist commissioned by Ludwig Borchardt, the German archaeologist credited with digging Nefertiti out of the sands of the ancient settlement of Amarna, 90 miles south of Cairo, in 1912.

In his book, Le Buste de Nefertiti – une Imposture de l'Egyptologie? (The Bust of Nefertiti – an Egyptology Fraud?), Stierlin has claimed that the bust was created to test ancient pigments. But after it was admired by a Prussian prince, Johann Georg, who was beguiled by Nefertiti's beauty, Borchardt, said Stierlin, "didn't have the nerve to make his guest look stupid" and pretended it was genuine.

Izvor: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/may/07.....thenticity

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