Family

Name: Family
Brand: Raknida
Price: 55.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Sandro Perovic

Illustration of an ancient Egyptian royal family: a pharaoh in a red-and-cream striped headdress, a queen holding a baby, and five children in white linen and gold, before a pink wall of trees.

$55.00

A pharaoh in a striped nemes headdress, his queen and their six children gather close. Sandro Perovic's warm illustration is inspired by the royal family portraits of ancient Egypt.

Family is a Studio Edition: 20 museum-quality art prints in each size, each numbered in its white border. Every artwork comes with its Cultural Passport.

The Cultural Passport

Every order comes with the heritage documented.

Digital, emailed when your order ships: the work's story, the tradition it draws on and how it was made. 5 × 7 in (13 × 18 cm), ready to print and frame beside the work.

How it works →

The pharaoh stands at the back, in the striped nemes headdress and plaited beard of a king. For once he is not the centre of attention. Sandro Perovic, a Croatian illustrator drawn to ancient Egypt, gives the picture to the family instead. It shows a queen with a cobra diadem and gold hoops, a baby held to her chest. Five more children of every age are crowded round, sitting, kneeling, leaning in.

Count the hands. The king's rests on a young man's shoulder; the queen's, ringed in blue, steadies the toddler at her side. The baby has one palm pressed flat against her. Egyptian art mostly kept its rulers distant, which is why the family scenes of the Amarna period, in the fourteenth century BC, still surprise. Perovic borrows that tenderness. And look at the wall behind them, painted with pale trees and cracked and patched like plaster that has stood for three thousand years.

Motifs in this work

Nemes headdress and plaited beard: the regalia of an Egyptian king

Cobra diadem: the uraeus, sign of royal protection

Touching hands: intimacy borrowed from Amarna-period family scenes

Edition: Edition of 20 in each size · 20 across all sizes. Further runs possible once a size sells out, each tagged (Run 2). Edition numbers count the works sold through Raknida; the artist may also sell their own editions of this work.
Numbering: Number, title and artist printed in the white border.
Printing: Museum-quality giclée with archival pigment inks on museum-grade cotton fine art paper.
Includes: Your numbered artwork and its Cultural Passport.

Size	Sheet	Image	Museum-Quality Print only	Framed	Available
S	9 × 12 in	7½ × 10½ in	$55	+$65	20

The artist

Sandro Perovic

Undeclared · Zagreb, Croatia · 2 works on Raknida

Sandro Perovic is a Croatian illustrator based in Zagreb whose work is inspired by ancient Egypt. He draws its gods and rulers with an illustrator's warmth and a sharp eye for regalia. He picks out the striped nemes headdress, the cobra diadem, the sistrum, the broad gold collar. In Family he gathers a pharaoh, his queen and their six children into one close group. In Mafdet-Bastet, two feline goddesses, one fierce and one gentle, walk hand in hand. His wider Egyptian series reaches from the gods Anubis, Atum and Nut to the pharaoh Taharqa.

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