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In Egyptian art the term Fayum mummy portrait refers to amount of paintings excavated from sites across Egypt, from the late Hellenistic period Greek and Roman period of the first century of BCE. The Fayum mummy portraits are found around Fayum Basin, to the Nile south of Cairo especially in Hawara, Achmin and Antinoupolis. The portraits were created around the imperial Roman period and are made from different hard wood such as cedar, fig, or oak that is then painted over them and placed on face of the deceased. The function is Egyptian but aesthetic comes from Greek roman tradition. It represented Romans and Greeks because their portraits were naturalistic and Egyptians religion which required mummifications whose art (seen on …show more content…
The artistic conventions became combined, highly symbolic and stylized portraits became more realistic just like Pompeii portraits, showing features, which made the portraits as appealing as they could be with Hellenistic ideals and mixture of revival. Mummies are boding a person preserved cultures after death because the spirits can’t recognize their souls without their bodies. The Egyptian used the procedure mummification, which is the process of drying out and preparing a body to ensure protection. Mummies are a body wrapped in linen, which made the wrapping that was covered in plaster that had been molded to look like the person. Egyptians buried their dead like this because they believed in the after life. The portrait was cut after the person dies and placed into the linen where their face is so it could fit on the specific place of the …show more content…
“The illusion, when standing in front of them, is that of coming face to face with someone one has to answer to—someone real,” says Euphrosyne Doxiadis the author of The Mysterious Fayum Portraits. Another portrait I selected which is called portrait of a young woman in red and is one of the high-class women. It is said that people have to pay a huge amount to get a Fayum portrait after death. This portrait was from the Roman period A.D. 90-120 and found in Egypt. The background of this portrait was usually glided, emphasizing the divine statues of the decrease body. Painted with a mixture of wax and pigment is used which you have to heat. The background is all painted in light grey or white but the faces don’t have a formula each is individualized. As I saw a photo of the portrait I emphasized that the lady has appealing youthfulness, which expresses me that she, isn’t that old. Every eye seems large in fayum portraits but each one can tell a different story from its shape, according to Y.Z. Kami (2016) “So exaggerated, so large but at the same time so real and so convincing, they’re soulful as if they’re giving us information about another dimension” The portrait shows large serious eyes demonstrating shape and noticeable long lashes that complimented her beauty, which represents lines. There is texture in her loose curls that covered her head and mostly her forehead that made me still
In Egyptian art the term Fayum mummy portrait refers to amount of paintings excavated from sites across Egypt, from the late Hellenistic period Greek and Roman period of the first century of BCE. The Fayum mummy portraits are found around Fayum Basin, to the Nile south of Cairo especially in Hawara, Achmin and Antinoupolis. The portraits were created around the imperial Roman period and are made from different hard wood such as cedar, fig, or oak that is then painted over them and placed on face of the deceased. The function is Egyptian but aesthetic comes from Greek roman tradition. It represented Romans and Greeks because their portraits were naturalistic and Egyptians religion which required mummifications whose art (seen on …show more content…
The artistic conventions became combined, highly symbolic and stylized portraits became more realistic just like Pompeii portraits, showing features, which made the portraits as appealing as they could be with Hellenistic ideals and mixture of revival. Mummies are boding a person preserved cultures after death because the spirits can’t recognize their souls without their bodies. The Egyptian used the procedure mummification, which is the process of drying out and preparing a body to ensure protection. Mummies are a body wrapped in linen, which made the wrapping that was covered in plaster that had been molded to look like the person. Egyptians buried their dead like this because they believed in the after life. The portrait was cut after the person dies and placed into the linen where their face is so it could fit on the specific place of the …show more content…
“The illusion, when standing in front of them, is that of coming face to face with someone one has to answer to—someone real,” says Euphrosyne Doxiadis the author of The Mysterious Fayum Portraits. Another portrait I selected which is called portrait of a young woman in red and is one of the high-class women. It is said that people have to pay a huge amount to get a Fayum portrait after death. This portrait was from the Roman period A.D. 90-120 and found in Egypt. The background of this portrait was usually glided, emphasizing the divine statues of the decrease body. Painted with a mixture of wax and pigment is used which you have to heat. The background is all painted in light grey or white but the faces don’t have a formula each is individualized. As I saw a photo of the portrait I emphasized that the lady has appealing youthfulness, which expresses me that she, isn’t that old. Every eye seems large in fayum portraits but each one can tell a different story from its shape, according to Y.Z. Kami (2016) “So exaggerated, so large but at the same time so real and so convincing, they’re soulful as if they’re giving us information about another dimension” The portrait shows large serious eyes demonstrating shape and noticeable long lashes that complimented her beauty, which represents lines. There is texture in her loose curls that covered her head and mostly her forehead that made me still