File:Egyptian - Mummy Portrait of a Bearded Man - Walters 326.jpg
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Mummy Portrait of a Bearded Man ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mummy Portrait of a Bearded Man |
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Description |
English: Prior to the Roman Period, the likeness of the deceased on the mummy mask, coffin, and sarcophagus was an idealized representation that conformed to the general style of the period. With the arrival of Roman rule in Egypt, mummy portraits became increasingly naturalistic. The new style of portraiture was sometimes rendered in two-dimensional paintings on a wood panel or on linen. The panel portraits were made in either tempera paint or in encaustic, like this example. Encaustic painting is a technique in which the pigment is dissolved in wax before it is applied to the surface. |
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Date | ca. AD 170-180 (Roman Imperial) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | encaustic painting on wood | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 40.5 cm (15.9 in); width: 20 cm (7.8 in) dimensions QS:P2048,40.5U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,20U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q210081 |
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Accession number |
32.6 |
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Place of creation | er-Rubayat (?) (in Faiyum) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Object history |
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Exhibition history | Focus on Art. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1983. Beyond the Pharaohs: Egypt and the Copts in the Second to Seventh Centuries A.D.. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1989. Transitions to Christianity. Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA), New York. 2011-2012. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | Acquired by Henry Walters, 1912 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source | Walters Art Museum: Home page Info about artwork | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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