The Mysterious Fayum Portraits : Faces from Ancient Egypt
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0500027943
ISBN-13
9780500027943
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 24th, 2024
Print length
248 Pages
Weight
1,542 grams
Dimensions
22.30 x 29.60 x 2.70 cms
Product Classification:
History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CEPainting & paintingsPortraits in art
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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.
This acclaimed survey, now in an updated format with a new foreword by Ahdaf Soueif, offers a richly illustrated account of the history and discovery of astonishing funerary portraits from Greco-Roman Egypt. These remarkable paintings take their name from a district of Roman Egypt, whose inhabitants in the first three centuries CE included Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Syrians, Libyans, Nubians, and Jews. In the Egyptian tradition, they embalmed the bodies of their dead; but then placed a painted portrait over the mummified person, preserving the memory of each individual. Over one thousand portraits have so far been discoveredmen, women, and children of all ages. Including almost two hundred of these paintings, Euphrosyne Doxiadis''s informative text combines incisive scholarship with a compelling selection of images of enduring freshness and beauty.Doxiadis''s text sets the people and the paintings in their social, artistic, and geographical context, describing the techniques used and showing how the Fayum portraits relate to Byzantine icon painting, in a tradition that extends from ancient Greece to the Renaissance and on to the present day.
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