In addition to changing the national religion, Akhenaten and his family – which included his first wife, Kiya, and chief wife, Nefertiti – relocated the national capital from Thebes (modern Luxor) to a new city 250 miles to the north up the Nile River, building it hastily from scratch. He named the city Akhetaten. In addition to these radical changes, Akhenaten’s reign also supported a new style of artwork. Diverging from rigid long-established conventions, art during this time depicted people, animals and objects more realistically, with curves and imperfections and the illusion of movement. Other works for the first time displayed intimate scenes of affection within the royal family.