Mummy Portraits Of Roman Egypt

Author : Marie Svoboda,Caroline Cartwright
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606066539

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Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt by Marie Svoboda,Caroline Cartwright Pdf

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 : Susan Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136694882

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Ancient Faces by Susan Walker Pdf

From the first major discoveries a century ago, the painted portraits of Roman Egypt were a revelation to scholars and the public alike, and the recent finding of a new cache of these gilded images, which made national headlines, have only heightened their mystery and appeal. Published to coincide with a new major exhibition of these portraits, Ancient Faces is the most comprehensive, up-to-date survey of these astonishing works of art. Dating from the later period of Roman rule in Egypt, shortly before the birth of Christ, the painted mummy portraits are among the most remarkable products of the ancient world, a fusion of the traditions of pharonic Egypt and the Classical world. They are historical and cultural objects of outstanding importance and beauty, superb works of art that represent some of the earliest known examples of life-like portraiture. Though the subjects of the portraits believed in the traditional Egyptian cults, which offered them a firm prospect of life after death, they also wished to be commemorated in the Roman manner, with their fashion of dress and adornment signaling their status in life. Despite their ancient history, these portraits speak to the modern eye with a beauty and intensity that would be lost to portraiture until the Renaissance.

Author : Lorelei Hilda Corcoran,Marie Svoboda
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606060360

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Herakleides by Lorelei Hilda Corcoran,Marie Svoboda Pdf

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 : Paul Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015082678981

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Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt by Paul Roberts Pdf

The Graeco-Roman mummy portraits remain one of the British Musuem's popular and intimate collections. This compact book presents glorious colour photos of some of the best, alongside commentary and a more general introduction to the techniques and practice of the portraiture.

Author : M. L. Bierbrier
Publisher : British Museum Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015045684936

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Portraits and Masks by M. L. Bierbrier Pdf

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.

Author : Morris Leonard Bierbrier,John Taylor,Paul Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X006118413

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Ancient Faces by Morris Leonard Bierbrier,John Taylor,Paul Roberts Pdf

From the first major discoveries in the 19th century, the painted panel and shroud portraits of Roman Egypt were a revelation to scholars and the public alike. Though the subjects of the portraits believed in the traditional Egyptian cults which offered them a firm prospect of life after death, they also wished to be commemorated in the Roman manner, the portraits focusing on their status in life. The images reveal the adoption of Roman fashions in dress and personal adornment by persons remote from the centre of the empire, but likely to have been actively engaged in its local administration. Many of the best known mummy portraits come from the Fayum, but portraits in various media are known from sites in the Nile Valley and along the Mediterranean coast. This text presents a wide range of examples, showing Roman influence coexisting with traditional Egyptian ways of commemorating the dead.

Author : Euphrosyne Doxiadis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Mummy portraits
ISBN : 050028217X

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The Mysterious Fayum Portraits by Euphrosyne Doxiadis Pdf

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.

Author : Susan Walker
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0870999303

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Ancient Faces by Susan Walker Pdf

Author : Essi Rönkkö,Taco Terpstra,Marc Walton
Publisher : Block Museum
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 1732568413

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Portrait of a Child by Essi Rönkkö,Taco Terpstra,Marc Walton Pdf

An illustrated guide to the research conducted on a mummified child discovered by archaeologists at a site in Roman-era Egypt.

Author : Janet Picton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138405051

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Living Images by Janet Picton Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 200?
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:429605676

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Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jane Rowlandson,Roger S. Bagnall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521588154

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Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt by Jane Rowlandson,Roger S. Bagnall Pdf

The period of Egyptian history from its rule by the Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty to its incorporation into the Roman and Byzantine empires has left a wealth of evidence for the lives of ordinary men and women. Texts (often personal letters) written on papyrus and other materials, objects of everyday use and funerary portraits have survived from the Graeco-Roman period of Egyptian history. But much of this unparalleled resource has been available only to specialists because of the difficulty of reading and interpreting it. Now eleven leading scholars in this field have collaborated to make available to students and other non-specialists a selection of over three hundred texts translated from Greek and Egyptian, as well as more than fifty illustrations, documenting the lives of women within this society, from queens to priestesses, property-owners to slave-girls, from birth through motherhood to death. Each item is accompanied by full explanatory notes and bibliographical references.

Author : Euphrosyne Doxiadis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995-10-15
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015038447135

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Mysterious Fayum Portraits by Euphrosyne Doxiadis Pdf

In the first three centuries A.D., in a fertile district of Roman Egypt called the Fayum, a diverse community of Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Syrians, Libyans, Nubians, and Jews flourished. These people, and many of their contemporaries throughout the Nile Valley, embalmed the bodies of their dead and then placed over the faces portraits painted on wooden panels or linen. These paintings, today known as Fayum, or mummy, portraits, were created to preserve the memory of each individual. The Fayum portraits are by far the most important body of portraiture to have survived antiquity. Reproduced in this arresting book are some 180 of the finest of the more than 1,000 extant images - of men, women, and children, young and old, plain and beautiful - all of whom seem uncannily alive. A few of these faces have become familiar to scholars and museum-goers, but as a whole they have been neglected by art historians and will be new to most readers.

Author : Christina Riggs
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0191534870

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The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt by Christina Riggs Pdf

This important new study looks at the intersection of Greek and Egyptian art forms in the funerary sphere of Roman Egypt. A discussion of artistic change, cultural identity, and religious belief foregrounds the detailed analysis of more than 150 objects and tombs, many of which are presented here for the first time. In addition to the information it provides about individual works of art, supported by catalogue entries, the study explores fundamental questions such as how artists combine the iconographies and representational forms of different visual traditions, and why two distinct visual traditions were employed in Roman Egypt.

Author : David L. Thompson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892360383

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Mummy Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum by David L. Thompson Pdf

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.