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Hace 4 días · Preserved by the dry desert environment, these Faiyum portraits make up the richest body of portraiture to have survived from antiquity. They provide a window into a society of peoples of mixed origins—Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Syrians, Libyans and others—that flourished 2,000 years ago in Faiyum.
Hace 5 días · Discover the timeless allure of a painted wood mummy portrait depicting a woman from the Roman period, estimated to be from circa 55-70 A.D. Explore the captivating mummy trappings including a striking painted portrait of a bearded man, originating from Egypt and possibly discovered in Negatine-Ella or Hawara.
8 de jul. de 2024 · Frappés par le regard si vivant, si intense, émanant d'un ces portraits, abrité dans une vitrine du musée du Caire, la poétesse et l'illustrateur se sont lancés dans un voyage dans l'Égypte du désert et du monde rural, voyage dans l'espace et dans le temps, à l'écart du tourisme de masse.
11 de jul. de 2024 · The mummy, or Fayum, portraits are Egyptian only in that they are associated with essentially Egyptian burial customs. Painted in an encaustic technique, they represent mostly Greek inhabitants of Egypt.
28 de jun. de 2024 · Faiyum Mummy Portraits. For the first three centuries CE, the people of Roman Egypt, especially those of the Faiyum region, used hot, pigmented wax to paint portraits of the dead on wooden or plaster-coated panels.
18 de jul. de 2024 · Ancient life in the Fayoum is particularly well known thanks to the large finds of papyri there. The figure depicted on the reverse is Amenemhat III , an Egyptian pharaoh of the 12th Dynasty, who ruled from circa 1831 to 1786 BCE.
11 de jul. de 2024 · Summarize this Article. Egyptian artists, whose skills are best exemplified in sculpture, regarded themselves essentially as craftspeople. Owing to their discipline and highly developed aesthetic sense, however, the products of their craft deserve to rank as art outstanding by any standards.
