Mummy Portraits From Roman Egypt

Author : Marie Svoboda
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606066536
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt written by Marie Svoboda and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1136694889
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Faces written by Susan Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606060368
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herakleides written by Lorelei Hilda Corcoran and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt written by Paul Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Euphrosyne Doxiadis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500282175
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mysterious Fayum Portraits written by Euphrosyne Doxiadis and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Essi Rönkkö
Publisher : Block Museum
ISBN 13 : 9781732568419
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portrait of a Child written by Essi Rönkkö and published by Block Museum. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated guide to the research conducted on a mummified child discovered by archaeologists at a site in Roman-era Egypt.

Author : Christina Riggs
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780191534874
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt written by Christina Riggs and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-01-06 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : M. L. Bierbrier
Publisher : British Museum Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portraits and Masks written by M. L. Bierbrier and published by British Museum Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David L. Thompson
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892360380
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mummy Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum written by David L. Thompson and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Janet Picton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138405059
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Images written by Janet Picton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.