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Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt. They belong to the tradition of panel painting, one of the most highly regarded forms of art in the Classical world.
11 de oct. de 2018 · Aside from their striking appearance, these funereal portraits give scholars great insight into the diverse population of the Al Fayyum region and how different cultures influenced each other.
Fayum portrait, an eye-catching collection of artworks from Roman Period (30 BC - 640 AD) to Coptic art. Find more interesting collections at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
26 de jun. de 2020 · This enigmatic short film presents fifty Egyptian funerary portraits from the region of Fayum. Painted during Roman rule between 100 and 300 A.D., these striking, psychological works were executed in encaustic while their subjects were alive and later used to cover their faces after mummification.
8 de dic. de 2020 · From naturally dried bodies, to plastered corpses, the mummified face of Governor Djehutynakht and a complete Fayum mummy portrait. Images British Museum, MFA Boston, Met. Over six thousand years ago, the ancient Egyptians realized the hot desert sand naturally preserved corpses.
8 de oct. de 2021 · The Fayum mummy portraits were lifelike images painted on thin wooden panels and placed directly over the mummy in Roman Egypt. The vast majority of them date to the 1st and 2nd centuries CE.
The realistic mummy portraits of men, women and children of all ages, well-known also as Fayum portraits are considered special and unique creations of a cosmopolitan multicultural society which flourished in Roman Egypt .
