Thutmose

Thutmose was court sculptor to the pharaoh Akhenaten, working at the new capital of Akhetaten, modern Amarna, around 1350 BCE. He is known because in 1912 German excavators found his house and workshop, identified by an ivory horse blinker inscribed with his name and title. The studio held the painted bust of Nefertiti, apparently a model for other sculptors to copy, and plaster studies of royal and ordinary faces. They show the closely observed naturalism of Amarna art at its best.