'Genius Loci / Echo'
  • Dimensions

    170 x 150 cm - 66.9" x 59.1"

  • Mediums

    Acrylics, Wall Enamels, Pastels, Sprays, Charcoal and Collages on Canvas.

Geniusl Loci / Echo is a painting performed by Alberto Ballocca and inspired by the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten.

Amenophis IV or Amenhotep IV was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty.

He reigned for 17 years and probably died in1336 BC.

Genius Loci, exudes how this pharaoh is famous for abandoning traditional Egyptian polytheism in favor of a new religion introduced by himself and based on the cult of the single god Aton, the solar disk.

His religious revolution, harshly opposed, proved to be ephemeral.

A few years after his death, his monuments were hidden or torn down, his statues broken or recycled and his name erased from the royal lists.

Traditional religious practices were gradually restored and the rulers who founded a new dynasty a few decades later, with no ties to the 18th dynasty, discredited Akhenaten and his immediate successors (Neferneferuaten, Smenkhara, Tutankhamun and Ay), calling Akhenaten himself “the enemy of Akhetaten ” or “that criminal”.

Because of this damnatio memoriae, Akhenaten was completely forgotten until the discovery, in the 19th century, of the archaeological site of Akhetaten (Horizon of Aten), the new capital that he founded and dedicated to the cult of Aten, near the current Amarna. This discovery and the recent mission of research of secrets behind his reign act as an echo for his figure, who, today finds a fame that perhaps surpasses that of Tutankhamun.

 
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