A portrait from the late 1st century CE. Walters Art Museum , Baltimore . Depiction of a woman with a ringlet hairstyle, an orange ch...
By Jocelyn Hitchcock, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom A mummy, a vampire, and Frankenstein's Monster walk into a bar... and order a classic Hollywood horror trope. Throughout the years, mummies have been cinematic vehicles for fear, leading to a widely held belief that Egyptian mummies were inherently spooky themselves. Immediately, we picture stiffly postured, white, tattered
//...Fayum mummy portraits...// Some Fayum portraits, dating collectively to the period AD 70-250. more about: https://bit.ly/2Wrk2pE
"They are the earliest painted portraits that have survived; they were painted whilst the Gospels of the New Testament were being written. Why then do they strike us today as being so immediate? Why...
I’ve been reading John Berger’s book, The Shape of a Pocket. In it there’s an essay on the Fayum portraits. During the 1st to 3rd century AD in Egypt, painted panel portraits (mor…
Beginning in about 70 AD, the people of the Fayum oasis in middle Egypt began burying their dead as mummies complete with intimate, realistic portraits that seem to hauntingly capture personality…
I’ve been reading John Berger’s book, The Shape of a Pocket. In it there’s an essay on the Fayum portraits. During the 1st to 3rd century AD in Egypt, painted panel portraits (mor…
//...Fayum mummy portraits...// Some Fayum portraits, dating collectively to the period AD 70-250. more about: https://bit.ly/2Wrk2pE
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Beginning in about 70 AD, the people of the Fayum oasis in middle Egypt began burying their dead as mummies complete with intimate, realistic portraits that seem to hauntingly capture personality…
Continuing with the Roman garb-making theme, I also made a pair of freshwater pearl earrings- Similar earrings can be seen in the Fayum mummy portraits below. I omitted the pearl at the top of the bar (where the earring hook joins the end bar) because I did not have any pearls of matching size and shape that would suit. Image from: http://rebloggy.com/post/art-stare-ancient-art-john-berger-coptic-mummy-portraits-faiyum-mummy-portraits/58488181973 (I love this whole outfit!) Image from: http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Arts/Fayum5.html Image from: http://foundinantiquity.com/2013/10/11/a-gallery-of-fayum-portraits/#jp-carousel-910
Beginning in about 70 AD, the people of the Fayum oasis in middle Egypt began burying their dead as mummies complete with intimate, realistic portraits that seem to hauntingly capture personality…
In Roman Egypt (30 BCE-324 CE), artists adapted naturalistic painting styles to the ancient custom of making portrait masks for mummies. The portraits were often painted while the subject was in the prime of life and were hung in the home until the person's death. This practice continued in northern Egypt well into the Early Byzantine period.
