Ancient Egyptian Portraiture

Alessio Delli Castelli, Ph.D. Candidate, Liège University, is a researcher in Ancient Egyptian Art History, with a focus on Old Kingdom royal portraiture. He has published articles on art, including a theoretical discussion on the anthropological/transcendental nature of art and sculpture, The Definition of Art and Sculpture (SAK 52, 2023).

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of FiguresList of TablesList of PlatesAbbreviationsPart1 The Contribution of Ancient Egyptian Portraiture to Egyptology and History of Art1 Definition and Phenomenology of Ancient Egyptian Portraiture1 The Insoluble Dichotomy of Portraiture2 The Transcendental Definition of Portraiture3 Phenomenology of Ancient Egyptian Portraiture2 Critique of the Egyptological Literature1 Paradigms2 The Seven Paradoxes of the Egyptological Terminology of Portraiture3 Projections4 Art, Portraiture, and Language: Conceptualism and Realism5 Causes6 Analysis, Style and History7 ConclusionPart2 History of the Notion of Portraiture in Egyptological Studies3 Egyptian Portraiture in General Studies1 The Egyptological Terminology of Portraiture2 Realistic and Idealistic Portraiture: Art Historical Implications (1824–1960s)3 Realistic and Idealistic Portraiture: Methods of Assessment4 Realistic and Idealistic Portraiture: Causes5 Stylistic and Iconographic Analysis (1950–2020)6 Sociological and Anthropological Analysis4 Excursus: The Definition of Portraiture in the Context of Specialist Studies1 Heinrich Schäfer (1868–1957): Das Staunen über die Erfahrung Personen zu erinnern2 Georg Steindorff (1861–1951): Nichts weiter als die steinernen Abbilder der betreffenden Personen3 Günther Roeder (1881–1966): Ein ganz bestimmter Mensch und anderer als er4 Alexander Scharff (1892–1950): Bursting the Fetters of its own Laws5 Hermann Junker (1877–1962): Die geistige Persönlichkeit, die hinter der äußeren Erscheinung steht6 Walther Wolf (1900–1973): Wechsel vom Denken zur Anschauung, vom Glauben zum Unglauben, von abstraktem zu konkretem Empfinden, von Idealismus zu Realismus!7 Sergio Donadoni (1914–2015): ll valore essenziale della sensibilità luministica8 Dows Dunham (1890–1984): To carry conviction as a true portrait in the modern sense9 Claude Vandersleyen (1927–2021): La double volonté de caractériser l’individu par le nom et les traits, a figure is more reliable than an inscription10 Andrey O.Bolshakov (1958: Purpose versus quality11 Donald Spanel (1952: The coexistence of the natural and the ideal12 Roland Tefnin (1946–2006): Portrait et individualisation, la gamme infinie des réalités possibles et le fosse séparant la typologie de la réalité historique13 Jan Assmann (1938–2024): Selbstthematisierung; visualisierte Erinnerung; nicht der Verschönerung, sondern der Verewigung des Daseins14 Dimitri Laboury (1969: Image incontourable, combinaison vectorielle, perméabilité, effet de réel et l’hypothèse d’une explication politiqueBibliographyIndex