The remarkable Roman Egypt-era work represents some the earliest realistic portrait paintings still in existence today.
The nose might give the man up as a Roman; the substantial bridge being a feature of the Italian race still today.
A rare mummy portrait from Roman Egypt is set to be auctioned next week. This unique piece features a modern-looking man with ...
You may have the chance to get an ancient mummy portrait from Roman Egypt that is heading to auction this week. That is, if ...
This enigmatic short film presents fifty Egyptian funerary portraits from the region of Fayum. Painted during Roman rule between 100 and 300 A.D., these striking, psychological works were executed in ...
A new exhibition at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam brings together a large collection of funeral paintings from post-Ptolemaic Egypt, some loaned from the Louvre and the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Barring the invention of a time machine, the Fayum portraits are the closest us 21st-century humans will ever get to standing face to face with people who walked this planet more than two millennia ...
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"An exhibition organized by William H. Peck [and held at] the Detroit Institute of Arts, March 22-April 30, 1967" https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp ...
With Face to Face: The People Behind Mummy Portraits, the Allard Pierson is presenting the first exhibition about ancient Egyptian mummy portraits in the Netherlands. Besides items from our own ...
"This publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibition ... held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from February 15-through May 7, 2000"--T.p. verso. Includes more than forty ...