Fayum portraits / Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter.
By: Geoffroy-Schneiter, Bérénice [author]
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BookPublisher: London : Thames and Hudson, 1998Description: 80 pages : colour illustrations, map ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0500237638 (hardback).Subject(s): Art, Egyptian | Mummy portraits | Fayyūm (Egypt)DDC classification: 757.0932 Summary: "Gazing at us across nearly two thousand years of history, the men and women of the Fayum portraits keep their secret, however anxious they seem to speak: the young girl childlike yet melancholy, the severe matron with dark eyes and heavy jewels, the soldier confident of victory over death. The cultured upper classes of Roman Egypt during the early centuries CE were marked by a complex mixture of peoples and beliefs, and the portraits allow us to glimpse that society. Aesthetically the images form a link between the lost art of ancient Greece and that of Byantium, and at the same time anticipate by many centuries the achievements of painters as diverse as El Greco and Modigliani. Scattered now in museums all over the world, they retain their mystery, which modern research can only partically dispel." - Inside cover.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Miraculously preserved in the desert sands, the people of Roman Egypt had their likenesses captured in portraits painted on coffins. But who created these images? This book attempts to piece together the secret of these ancient portaits, which can be seen in museums all over the world.
Bibliography: page 75.
"Gazing at us across nearly two thousand years of history, the men and women of the Fayum portraits keep their secret, however anxious they seem to speak: the young girl childlike yet melancholy, the severe matron with dark eyes and heavy jewels, the soldier confident of victory over death. The cultured upper classes of Roman Egypt during the early centuries CE were marked by a complex mixture of peoples and beliefs, and the portraits allow us to glimpse that society. Aesthetically the images form a link between the lost art of ancient Greece and that of Byantium, and at the same time anticipate by many centuries the achievements of painters as diverse as El Greco and Modigliani. Scattered now in museums all over the world, they retain their mystery, which modern research can only partically dispel." - Inside cover.