Hi everyone, it’s Robbie Cheadle here with you today with the July post in the Famous Artworks series on LatinosUSA – English Edition.
If you have a favourite Famous Artwork you’d like to share, please email me at cheadlerobbie@gmail.com. Your email should be titled Famous Artworks. You need to include a free use picture of the artwork or your own photograph and a short writeup about the picture.
About The Great Sphinx of Tanis
The Great Sphinx of Tanis is an ancient Egyptian sculpture of a sphinx carved from pink granite. It was discovered in the ruins of the Temple of Amun-Ra in Tanis, the capital of Egypt during the 21st and 22nd dynasties.
The Sphinx is inscribed with the cartouches of several different pharaohs including Amenemhat II, Merneptah, and Shoshenq I. This practice of rulers carving their own names over their predecessors’ names, known as usurping, allowed new kings to claim the legacy of older monuments.
The Sphinx comprises a recumbent lion’s body (representing divine power) topped with a human pharaonic head. The statue is wearing the traditional nemes headdress, a royal cobra on the forehead, and a straight false beard.
The Great Sphinx of Tanis has visible damage to its nose which Egyptologist believe to have been deliberate vandalism. Ancient Egyptian sometimes purposefully damaged statues in this way to ‘deactivate’ the spiritual power of the image.
My photographs of the Great Sphinx of Tanis at the Louvre Museum in Paris
There was a great crowd around the Great Sphinx of Tanis when I saw it at the Louvre over the Easter weekend. I had to be quite pushy to get to the front to take my photographs. TC always hangs back and pretends he doesn’t know me – grin!
About Robbie Cheadle
South African author, photographer, and artist, Robbie Cheadle, has written and illustrated seventeen children’s books, illustrated a further three children’s books, written and illustrated four poetry books and written and illustrated one celebration of cake and fondant art book with recipes. Her work has also appeared in poetry and short story anthologies.
Robbie also has two novels and a collection of short stories published under the name of Roberta Eaton Cheadle and has horror, paranormal, and fantasy short stories featured in several anthologies under this name.
You can find Robbie Cheadle’s artwork, fondant and cake artwork, and all her books on her website here: https://www.robbiecheadle.co.za/
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