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The Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from that tradition to have survived. They were formerly, and incorrectly, called Coptic portraits. Mummy portraits have been found across Egypt, but are most common in the Faiyum Basin, particularly from Hawara and the Hadrianic Roman city Antinoopolis. "Faiyum portraits" is generally used as ...
Description: A PAINTED WOOD MUMMY PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 55-70 A.D. Probably from Hawara, painted in encaustic, depicted in her youth in three-quarter right view, with a triangular face and a long neck, her complexion pale, with a pointed chin, thick eye brows, large eyes with heavy lids, a slender nose and a small mouth with full pink lips, her long black hair with snail-like ...
Coptic icons have their origin in the Greco-Roman art of Egypt's Late Antiquity, as exemplified by the Fayum mummy portraits. [4] The faces of El Fayum are examples of the Coptic art in the 2nd century AD showing the Greek and Roman influence on the Coptic art but with some distinctive features related to Egyptian art.
An Encaustic Mummy Portrait of a Man, Roman Period, circa A.D. 200-225 PROVENANCE Theodor Graf (1840-1903), Vienna, 2nd collection Bruno Kertzmar Gallery, Vienna European private collection, circa 1930 by descent to the present owner, 1978
The work was produced after the boy's death, and is classified as one of the Fayum mummy portraits. [2] Such mortuary portraits, attached to the burial, were popular as an artistic medium in the 1st century AD during the Roman Empire's rule over Egypt, which was dominated by an upper class of ethnic Greeks.
An Egyptian Encaustic on Wood Mummy Portrait of a Man, Roman Period, 2nd Quarter of the 3rd century A.D. wearing short beard and hair, with traces of linen wrapping remaining above. Height 16 in. 40.6 cm. PROVENANCE New York private collection (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 21st, 1977, no. 396, illus.)
The possible living face of Peru’s most famous mummy, a teenage Inca girl sacrificed in a ritual more than 500 years ago atop the Andes, was unveiled Tuesday. Produced by a team of Polish and ...
Faiyum (/ f aɪ ˈ j uː m / fy-YOOM; Arabic: الفيوم, romanized: el-Fayyūm, locally [elfæjˈjuːm]) [a] is a city in Middle Egypt. Located 100 kilometres (62 miles) southwest of Cairo, in the Faiyum Oasis, it is the capital of the modern Faiyum Governorate. It is one of Egypt's oldest cities due to its strategic location. [2]