The Art during AMARNA Period,
During Akhenaten's reign, the artistic style had a sudden transition from the traditional Egyptian style of portraying people with ideal, perfect physiques, to a new style, It would seem that the artists were attempting to portray people (Specially Akhenaten) with honesty, to the extent that the images became caricatures.The master sculptor, Bek, claimed to have been taught by Akhenaten himself.
Since such a depiction of Akhenaten could only have been created with his approval, it might be that his physical appearance figured prominently into his religion. He called himself Wa-en-Re, or "The Unique One of Re," thus emphasizing the fact that he was not like anyone else, and he also placed a lot of emphasis on the unique nature of his god, Aten. It could be that he believed that his peculiar physical appearance had divine significance, and somehow linked him to the Aten.
In the later period of Akhenaten's reign, the style changed abruptly, probably because a new master sculptor, Tuthmose, took over. The remains of Tuthmose's workshop have provided us with a spectacular array of artistic masterpieces, as well as valuable insights into the process by which the artists created their work.
Tuthmose had a style which was decidedly more realistic than Bek's. He produced some of the finest art in Egyptian history. His portraits are also probably some of the most accurate portrayals of the Amarna family in existence.
The statuary from Tuthmose's workshop is of a type known as "composite statuary." The individual parts of the statues were composed separately from one another and then fastened together. In this bust of one of Akhenaten's daughters (drawing at left by Megaera Lorenz), a little bit of the large stone peg is left at the base of the neck. This peg would have been inserted into a slot in a torso created by another artist, maybe composed of a different material.
Akhenaten's daughters all display the strange elongation in their skulls that the princess in the bust has.in this video you can see paintings and head statues of some of Akhenaten Daughters (Neferneferu-Re,Neferneferuaten-Tashery And Ankhesenamen (who became Tutakhamen wife) and remember that Tutankhamen have skull which look similar to this, so it is almost certainly an accurate depiction.

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