Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt...

a large number of what are known as Fayum mummy portraits, bust portraits on wood added to the outside of mummies by a Romanized middle class; despite...

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of layers of linen or papyrus covered with plaster. Some of the Fayum mummy portraits are also painted on panels made of cartonnage. In a technique similar...

Eberswalde Hoard Priam's Treasure The Moscow Mathematical Papyrus Fayum mummy portraits Annunciation by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1495-1498 Madonna and a Child...

(Staatliche Museen zu Berlin). Pitsa panels Fayum mummy portraits Altes Museum McCann, Anna Marguerite (1968). "The Portraits of Septimius Severus (A.D. 193-211)"...

preference for cremation. Preserved by the dry desert environment, these Fayum mummy portraits make up the richest body of portraiture to have survived from antiquity...

the ancient Egyptians. The Roman era Fayum mummy portraits attached to coffins containing the latest dated mummies discovered in the Faiyum Oasis represent...

and her drapery were reportedly similar to the paintings of the Fayum mummy portraits. A steel engraving published by John Sartain in 1885 depicting the...

depicted being led by Isis. Greek and Roman art like the Hellenistic Fayum mummy portraits and Battle of Issus at Pompeii contributed to Byzantine art in the...

surviving examples of painted portraits from classical antiquity, the "Fayum" mummy portraits from Roman Egypt. Among the discoveries made by Petrie were papyrus...

One of the best remaining representations are the Hellenistic Fayum mummy portraits. Another example is mosaic of the Battle of Issus at Pompeii, which...

after the boy's death, and is classified as one of the Fayum mummy portraits. Such mortuary portraits, attached to the burial, were popular as an artistic...

Italian ones; Cedrus was extensively used in Ancient Egypt (cf. Fayum mummy portraits) and occasionally in Europe; Chestnut was frequently used for panels...

oldest surviving encaustic panel paintings are the Romano-Egyptian Fayum mummy portraits from Egypt, around 100–300 AD, but it was a very common technique...

connection to contemporaneous Roman-Egyptian art (in particular the Fayum mummy portraits) as well as linguistic arguments supporting the authenticity of...

variety of writing purposes In encaustic paintings such as the Fayum mummy portraits In bow making To strengthen and preserve sewing thread, cordage...

been found on early Egyptian sarcophagus decorations. Many of the Fayum mummy portraits use tempera, sometimes in combination with encaustic painting with...

Lucas. The "interesting tombs in the Fayum" refers to the Fayum Basin south of Cairo, famous for Fayum mummy portraits. Angela Warren refers to Shakespeare...

Coffin portrait of Barbara Lubomirska, 1676. Coffin portrait of Stanisław Woysz, 1677. Coffin portrait of Baltazar Horlemes, 1682. Fayum mummy portraits Funeral...

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echo their compositions. The first century BC to third century AD Fayum mummy portraits, preserved in the exceptionally dry conditions of Egypt, provide...

on them, as had happened during the invasion of Sicily in 1943. Fayum mummy portraits, from Late Antique Egypt (some in encaustic) Dirk Bouts Entombment...

or precious metals, with numerous examples represented on the Fayum mummy portraits of the Roman Imperial period. In ancient Greece, a wreath of laurel...

Kunst, Taschen, Köln u.a. 2007, p. 94f. ISBN 978-3-8228-5455-6 Fayum mummy portraits Panel painting Ancient Roman art Details on the find, see Barbara...

survived. The best known examples of ancient panel painting, the Fayum mummy portraits and the Severan Tondo, are of Roman date. The Pitsa panels, probably...

[2 volumes]. [ ]: ABC-CLIO. pp. 94–95. ISBN 9781567206913. The Fayum mummy portraits from Hawara dating from the first to the third centuries CE depict...

placed in a decorated anthropoid coffin. Mummies of the Late Period were also placed in painted cartonnage mummy cases. Actual preservation practices declined...

conditions of Egypt, the Fayum mummy portraits, together with the similar Severan Tondo, and a small group of painted portrait miniatures in gold glass...

primarily by the Fayum mummy portraits, which evoke Egyptian and Roman traditions of commemorating the dead with realistic painting. Marble portrait sculpture...