THE MANY FACES OF NEFERTITI

What have hitherto hindered an art-historical appreciation of the bust of Nefertiti at the Egyptian Museum Berlin are its popularity , media interest in alleged demands for restitution, and the poor presentation of the original. A decade of familiarity with the Nef ertiti bust has allowed the author, who was director of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin from 1989 to 2009, to trace the modern history of this world-famous, 3,300-year-old sculpturefrom its discovery and its reception in art and literature of the twentieth century to current...[Read more]