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2. Art of ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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   Ancient Egyptian art refers to art produced in ancient Egypt between the 6th millennium BC and the 4th century AD, spanning from Prehistoric Egypt until the Christianization of Roman Egypt. It includes paintings, sculptures, drawings on papyrus, faience, jewelry, ivories, architecture, and other art media. It was a conservative tradition whose ...

3. Egyptian faience - Wikipedia

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   Egyptian faience is a sintered-quartz ceramic ... shades of blue that can be achieved by adding cobalt and copper pigments to faience paste.Walters Art ...

4. Lotiform vessels (Metropolitan Museum of Art) - Wikipedia

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   Egyptian faience pottery (as opposed to modern faience) was made from fired earthenware colored with a glaze. The art style was popular in the Third Intermediate Period (c. 1069 BC – c. 664 BC) of Egyptian history. Blue-green, the most popular color used on the earthenware, was achieved through the use of a quartz and calcite lime-based glaze ...

5. Chemical imaging reveals hidden details in Egyptian paintings

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   Researchers using a cutting-edge technique have discovered hidden details in two ancient Egyptian paintings in the Theban Necropolis, near the River Nile, that date back more than 3,000 years.

6. Fayum mummy portraits - Wikipedia

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   Ancient sources indicate that panel painting rather than wall painting (i.e., painting on wood or other mobile surfaces) was held in high regard, but very few ancient panel paintings survive. One of the few examples besides the mummy portraits is the Severan Tondo , also from Egypt (around 200), which, like the mummy portraits, is believed to ...

7. Colorful paintings of daily life uncovered in 4,300-year-old ...

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   Colorful paintings of daily life in ancient Egypt have been discovered in a tomb dating back more than 4,300 years.. The tomb, known as a mastaba, was found in the pyramid necropolis of Dahshur ...