Drawing primarily from the MFA’s extensive collection of ancient Egyptian art, one of the largest and most important in the world, Maverick Kings explores the lives and legacies of these dynamic monarchs through their art and own words. Visitors can see major monuments to Hatshepsut, including the only royal sarcophagus from the 18th Dynasty outside of Egypt; large statues of deities in animal form, a style characteristic of Amenhotep III’s reign, such as a nearly six-foot-tall statue of a falcon; and a sculpted portrait of Akhenaten’s son, Tutankhamen (reigned about 1332–1323 BCE), who restored the cults of the old gods. Together these objects reveal how, just as we fashion public personas for our own ends today, these three pharaohs created and used their own images to achieve and retain political power. The exhibition also includes objects on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Egyptian Museum in Berlin, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. It ends with contemporary art by Awol Erizku and others that exemplifies the perennial influence and appeal of ancient Egyptian imagery.