Fayum Portraits
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Author | : Euphrosyne Doxiadis |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-10-24 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780500027943 |
A compact edition of this highly acclaimed survey of the Fayum paintings, the enigmatic and compelling funerary portraits created by the inhabitants of Roman Egypt in the first century CE.
Author | : Susan Walker |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Egypt |
ISBN | : 9780415927451 |
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, February-May 2000, the first major showing in North America of stunning painted mummy portraits that represent a confluence of ancient Egyptian and Roman cultures and the Graeco-Roman painting tradition. The catalog concentrates closely on the paintings, their artistry, and their social context and meaning. Seven contributed essays set the context. The 122 color and 23 bandw illustrations are fully discussed and described by editor Walker, who is affiliated with the British Museum. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : David L. Thompson |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892360380 |
These extraordinary Egyptian images produced from Julio-Claudian times through the age of Constantine (the first four centuries A.D.), seem often to have been commissioned while the subject was still alive and displayed in the home. At death, the portrait was inserted into the deceased’s mummy wrappings. Thirteen mummy portraits from the Getty Museum’s collection are catalogued in this text by Dr. David Thompson, professor of Classics at Howard University. Placing the works in the context of other so-called Fayum paintings, Dr. Thompson examines their importance as portraits and identifies the hands of individual painters. Numerous illustrations accompany his discussion.
Author | : Marie Svoboda |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2020-08-25 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1606066536 |
This publication presents fascinating new findings on ancient Romano-Egyptian funerary portraits preserved in international collections. Once interred with mummified remains, nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums around the world, bringing viewers face-to-face with people who lived two thousand years ago. Until recently, few of these paintings had undergone in-depth study to determine by whom they were made and how. An international collaboration known as APPEAR (Ancient Panel Paintings: Examination, Analysis, and Research) was launched in 2013 to promote the study of these objects and to gather scientific and historical findings into a shared database. The first phase of the project was marked with a two-day conference at the Getty Villa. Conservators, scientists, and curators presented new research on topics such as provenance and collecting, comparisons of works across institutions, and scientific studies of pigments, binders, and supports. The papers and posters from the conference are collected in this publication, which offers the most up-to-date information available about these fascinating remnants of the ancient world. The free online edition of this open-access publication is available at www.getty.edu/publications/mummyportraits/ and includes zoomable illustrations and graphs. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book.
Author | : Lorelei Hilda Corcoran |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1606060368 |
Herakleides was a young man who lived and died in Roman Egypt almost 2000 years ago. This multidisciplinary study of his mummy highlights the funerary practices and religious beliefs of his world.
Author | : Janet Picton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
The haunting funerary paintings on wood coffins found in Roman Egypt still represent some of the most vivid images that come to us from the ancient world. These paintings were first discovered by Flinders Petrie, father of modern archaeology, in his excavations in the Egyptian Fayum during the 1880s and have rested at University College London for over 100 years. Now, the Petrie Museum is bringing this corpus of paintings to the public in a stunning catalog. Living Images is a beautiful and authoritative presentation of the restored collection that will be an essential reference for scholars and a fascinating read for general audiences. Central to the volume is a complete catalog of the mummy portraits uncovered by Petrie, including full color illustrations and descriptions of technical and stylistic features and iconographic characteristics. To add to the value of the volume, articles describe the process of finding the mummies, explain the place of funerary assemblages in the history of Egyptian burial customs, offer an introduction to Egyptian portrait painting, and explain the conservation issues presented by the coffins. Petrie's own reflections on his finds are also included. The volume is dedicated to the memory of Egyptologist Barbara Adams and co-sponsored by the Petrie Museum.
Author | : John Berger |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2009-09-09 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 030749084X |
From Booker Prize-winning author John Berger, a collection of essays that explores the relationship of art and artists and includes examinations of the work of Brancusi, Degas, Michelangelo, and Frida Kahlo, among others. The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the New World Economic Order. The people coming together are the reader, me, and those the essays are about–Rembrandt, Paleolithic cave painters, a Romanian peasant, ancient Egyptians, an expert in the loneliness of a certain hotel bedroom, dogs at dusk, a man in a radio station. And unexpectedly, our exchanges strengthen each of us in our conviction that what is happening in the world today is wrong, and that what is often said about it is a lie. I’ve never written a book with a greater sense of urgency. –John Berger
Author | : Berenice Geoffroy-Schneiter |
Publisher | : Assouline Books & Gifts |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9782843236280 |
"This is a small book full of beautiful portraits of Fayum people, in which we can delight ourselves in the skills and artistry of the local artists, as well as the cultural customs it arisen from. It contains a short, but quite satisfactory introduction to the history and traditions of these portraits in Greek-Roman-Egyptian culture. The basis of this book is the portraits themselves, these were carefully selected to present a spectrum of Egyptian society. They are presented in a black foreground which enhances the portrait, simulating a family album, if you will. Haunting and beautiful." - product description.
Author | : John Berger |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2015-10-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1784781789 |
John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, tells a personal history of art from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to 21st century conceptual artists. Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about artists both canonized and obscure, from Rembrandt to Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock to Picasso. Throughout, Berger maintains the essential connection between politics, art and the wider study of culture. The result is an illuminating walk through many centuries of visual culture, from one of the contemporary world's most incisive critical voices.
Author | : M. L. Bierbrier |
Publisher | : British Museum Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
The result of a major colloquium on burial customs in Roman Egypt, these papers cover the reasons behind the development of mummy portraits and the society from which they emerged, as well as the artistic techniques employed.