Queen Nefertiti’s Eye and the Beauty of Incompleteness

摘要

When I stayed in Germany for a month, I visited the Neues Museum located in Berlin. There, I saw the bust of Queen Nefertiti (1370–1330 BC), the royal wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep IV and the mother of the boy king Tutankhamun (Fig. ​(Fig.1).1). Since the profile of the bust appears on the title page of a scientific journal, and the technique of botulinum toxin injection is used to create an appearance similar to that of her elongated, thin neck, I enjoyed looking at it carefully.