The Mysterious Fayum Portraits
Faces from Ancient Egypt
$80.29
- Hardcover
248 pages
- Release Date
24 October 2024
Summary
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 p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780500027943 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0500027943 |
| Author: | Euphrosyne Doxiadis, Ahdaf Soueif |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Imprint: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 24 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 1.57kg |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 224mm x 297mm |
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Critics Review
‘The best text currently available on late classical portraiture and the origin of the icon’ - William Dalrymple, The Spectator
‘The many astonishingly beautiful faces that greet the reader from the pages of this book are supported by a scholarly text, archaeological, art historical, technical and deeply sensitive’ - Brian Sewell, The Evening Standard
Euphrosyne Doxiadis
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.
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