";s:4:"text";s:2300:" These magnificent portraits were prepared to help people in their afterlife. The famous Fayum mummy portraits of people who lived in Egypt during the Greco-Roman period contain many secrets and were very important for the dead buried with them. Paintings of this type, often called Faiyum portraits (though not all of them come from the Faiyum oasis), are typical products of the multicultural, multiethnic society of Roman Egypt.
These Fayum funeral portraits date from around 100 years A. Faiyum Mummy Portrait, Encaustic Wax c. *EGYPT ~ Portrait of a … 22 oct. 2016 - During the 1st to 3rd century AD in Egypt, painted panel portraits (more commonly referred to as Fayoum or Fayum portraits) were bandaged over the heads of mummies. Most of them are painted in the elaborate encaustic technique, in which pigments were mixed with hot or cold beeswax and other ingredients, such as egg, resin, and linseed oil. Long before realistic portrait painting developed in Europe in the Renaissance, Roman-Egyptian artists did striking likenesses in wax on limewood.
They were finely executed in encaustic paint on wood or stuccoed linen. These astonishing portraits depict the inhabitants of Greco-Roman ancient Egypt in exacting detail.