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The Mysterious Fayum Portraits - Euphrosyne Doxiadis

The Mysterious Fayum Portraits

Faces from Ancient Egypt
Buch | Hardcover
248 Seiten
2024
Thames & Hudson Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-500-02794-3 (ISBN)
CHF 69,80 inkl. MwSt
A compact edition of this highly acclaimed survey of the Fayum paintings, the enigmatic and compelling funeral portraits created by the inhabitants of Roman Egypt in the 1st century CE.

These remarkable paintings take their name from a district of Roman Egypt, whose people in the first three centuries AD included Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Syrians, Libyans, Nubians and Jews. In the Egyptian tradition, they embalmed the bodies of their dead; but then placed a painted portrait over the mummy, preserving the memory of each individual to an uncanny degree. Over 1000 have so far been discovered – men, women and children of all ages. Illustrating almost 200 of the portraits, Euphrosyne Doxiadis’s book combines arresting beauty with up-to-date scholarship. Having selected the best and most interesting, she has grouped them according to the places where they were found. Many new photographs were commissioned and some are shown since cleaning.

Doxiadis’s text sets the people and the paintings in their social, artistic and geographical context, describing the techniques used and showing how the Fayum portraits relate to Byzantine icon painting, in a tradition that extends from ancient Greece to the Renaissance and on to the present day.

Euphrosyne Doxiadis is a Greek artist and writer. She was born in Athens and studied art in Salzburg, at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, and at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Wimbledon School of Art in London. Her interest in the Fayum portraits was kindled by working with the distinguished Greek painter Yannis Tsarouchis.

Foreword by Dorothy L. Thompson
Introduction
Acknowledgments

The Plates
I Graeco-Roman Egypt
II The Portraits
III The Find-Sites
Commentaries on the Portraits

Erscheinungsdatum
Vorwort Ahdaf Soueif
Zusatzinfo 150 Illustrations, black and white; 124 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 216 x 288 mm
Gewicht 1540 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Kunst / Musik / Theater Malerei / Plastik
ISBN-10 0-500-02794-3 / 0500027943
ISBN-13 978-0-500-02794-3 / 9780500027943
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