Even they were old, their images (sculptures or paintings) show a young man (or woman). Isn't it curious?
2006-12-29 05:21:10 · 5 answers · asked by bochinchejose 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Pharaohs were gods, and gods usually appear as healthy young people like in "beautiful as a young Greek god".
2006-12-29 05:24:12 · answer #1 · answered by jacquesh2001 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Egyptian art wasn't so much a portrait (like later Hellenistic and Roman art were) but more a representation of the ideal.
But quite a few of the pharoahs were actually quite young. Tutenkhamen (sp?) died before he was 20.
2006-12-29 05:24:08 · answer #2 · answered by willow oak 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there were many conventions in egyptian art that would seem to make this the rule!!the first example would seem to be that "no one" in the ancient world ever lived to be much older than 30 years old as an extreme age level because of the dangers,diseases and vissitudes of life in those times!!there was conventions that showed the state of the personages depicted as they would be in paradise;free of infirmity,disease,wounds or the aging process as both a religious hope but also a physically predestined verity!people were generally never depicted "full face" front in paintings of an official inscription!faces were always in profile as the chest always was toward the veiwer in addition while the legs and arms were "side-views"!!the very hieroglyphics that depicted the word female god,male god,child,boy,man or woman followed these precepts!!the cult of osiris,a young god on earth ,who stode the land of the nile encouraging industry,technology and farming procedures;having been killed by his brother.the brother disseminated all of the parts of his body not only widely around the then known world ;but also.in different time periods!!isis ,his sister-wife(who taught the womanly arts of weaving,cooking,animal husbandry to the egyptians)reassembled and sought out all of his parts ;even his heart which was planted by SET,his brother next to a seed of a cedar of lebanon which had grown and encased it's cask deep within it;s wooden trunk overtime!!once reassembled he was considered the ever you and eternal god of rebirth and protector of the growing arts of agriculture!!youth is as it was then "a cult" celebrating that "best-of-times"!!
2006-12-29 09:39:30 · answer #3 · answered by eldoradoreefgold 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
youth is seen in many cultures as a sign of fertility and good health, which is no doubt how pharoes would wish to be percieved, and it is indeed true that their lifespan was quite limited anyway.
2006-12-29 05:25:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
coz they were ever ready 2 marry
2006-12-29 05:36:08 · answer #5 · answered by Rocky 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋