The Mysterious Fayum Portraits

The Mysterious Fayum Portraits
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.

The Mysterious Fayum Portraits

The Mysterious Fayum Portraits
Author: Euphrosyne Doxiadis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2000
Genre: Mummy portraits
ISBN: 9780500282175

The Fayum portraits were created by the people of a flourishing district of Roman Egypt during the first three centuries AD. In the old Egyptian tradition, these people embalmed the bodies of their dead, but then they placed over the mummy, a painted portrait to preserve the memory of each individual. Over 1000 portraits have so far been discovered of men, women and children.

Ancient Faces

Ancient Faces
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

Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt

Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt
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.

Mummy Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Mummy Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum
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.

Byzantium and Islam

Byzantium and Islam
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1588394573

This magnificent volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 9th century. At the beginning of the 7th century, the Empire's southern provinces, the vibrant, diverse areas of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, were at the crossroads of exchanges reaching from Spain to China. These regions experienced historic upheavals when their Christian and Jewish communities encountered the emerging Islamic world, and by the 9th century, an unprecedented cross- fertilization of cultures had taken place. This extraordinary age is brought vividly to life in insightful contributions by leading international scholars, accompanied by sumptuous illustrations of the period's most notable arts and artifacts. Resplendent images of authority, religion, and trade—embodied in precious metals, brilliant textiles, fine ivories, elaborate mosaics, manuscripts, and icons, many of them never before published— highlight the dynamic dialogue between the rich array of Byzantine styles and the newly forming Islamic aesthetic. With its masterful exploration of two centuries that would shape the emerging medieval world, this illuminating publication provides a unique interpretation of a period that still resonates today.

Egyptian Art (World of Art)

Egyptian Art (World of Art)
Author: Bill Manley
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2018-01-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0500774099

An insightful volume delving into the enduringly compelling art of ancient Egypt, from a new historical perspective The art and architecture of Egypt during the age of the pharaohs continue to capture the imagination of the modern world. Among the great creative achievements of ancient Egypt are a set of constant forms: archetypes in art and architecture in which the origins of concepts such as authority, divinity, beauty, and meaning are readily discernible. Whether adapted to fine, delicate jewelry or colossal statues, these forms maintain a human face—with human ideas and emotions. These artistic templates, and the ideas they articulated, were refined and reinvented through dozens of centuries, until scenes first created for the earliest kings, around 3000 BCE, were eventually used to represent Roman emperors and the last officials of pre-Christian Egypt. Bill Manley’s account of the art of ancient Egypt draws on the finest works through more than 3,000 years and places celebrated masterpieces, from the Narmer palette to Tutankhamun’s gold mask, in their original contexts in the tombs, temples, and palaces of the pharaohs and their citizens.

Fayum Portraits

Fayum Portraits
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.

Pocket Museum?

Pocket Museum?
Author: Campbell Price
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2018-02
Genre: Egypt
ISBN: 9780500519844

If all the portable artefacts of Ancient Egypt were in a single location, the lives of students, historians and connoisseurs would be immeasurably simpler - but the objects are scattered in museums and collections all over the world. This book brings together nearly 200 of the most significant artefacts, giving both context and immediacy to the rich culture of Ancient Egypt. From a 5000-year-old Predynastic pottery bowl adorned with model hippopotami, to a pair of sandals carefully woven from grass, reeds and papyrus, to a wooden sundial amulet of the early Roman period, this is a compelling and beautifully illustrated overview of three millennia of civilization on the banks of the Nile.

Herakleides

Herakleides
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.