Egypt
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- Exhibition: The Oldest Modernist Paintings (faiyum Portraits)
Smithsonian Magazine Between 1887 and 1889, the British archaeologist W.M. Flinders Petrie turned his attention to the Fayum, a sprawling oasis region 150 miles south of Alexandria. Excavating a vast cemetery from the first and second centuries A.D.,...
- Exhibition: The Fayum Mummy Portraits Of Egypt
Gadling (Sean McLachlan) The pyramids, Tutankhamen's gold, the massive temples of Luxor and Karnak. . .the civilization of ancient Egypt has left us an incredible legacy, yet of all of these impressive monuments and treasures none has a more personal...
- Faiyum Portraits
nunc stans My daily photo slot yesterday showed five of the Hawara portraits from the Faiyum. Quite coincidentally I stumbled across this blog which has a You Tube video showing some more of the Faiyum portraits. The video simply shows a large number...
- Ancient Art Influences Modern Icons
http://tinyurl.com/824zp "The famous Faiyum portraits are named after a fertile land in Roman Egypt peopled, during the first three centuries AD by a diverse community of Greeks, Romans, Syrians, Libyans, Nubians and Jews. One of the customs of those...
- Faiyum Portraits On Display
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o090625n.htm"Dr. Zahi Hawwas has opened an exhibition in the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square showing a number of Fayyoum portraits. The exhibition is set to go on display for two months. It includes 12 portraits and...
Egypt
Exhibition: Unpublished Faiyum portraits in Madrid
Art Daily
The Fayum Mummy Portraits continue to surprise to this day with their modern sensibility and vitality. Made between the first and fourth centuries A.D. they come from the tomb of Al- Fayum as well as from other places across Egypt, and they are borne of a mixture of Greek encaustic painting, Roman realism, and Egyptian funerary rituals. The exhibition Fayum Portraits + Adrian Paci: No Visible Future, organized by the Ministry of Culture, National Archeology Museum and PHotoEspaña posits these paintings as the earliest antecedent of photography since, in a manner similar to ID photos, the painters portray with the greatest possible exactitude the characteristics of their subjects so that the souls of the dead could recognize them – hence the portraits’ simplicity and accuracy.
John Berger dedicated one of his most elegant texts to these works; in it, he relates them to the migrations of our time. This exhibition seeks to pay them homage, bringing together 13 portraits that are shown along with the video Centro para la permanencia temporal (Center for Temporal Permanence), by Adrian Paci, a work in which time stops, and its protagonists – possible emigrants seek to depart but do not move – are subtly fashioned like the living-dead of Fayum.
- Exhibition: The Oldest Modernist Paintings (faiyum Portraits)
Smithsonian Magazine Between 1887 and 1889, the British archaeologist W.M. Flinders Petrie turned his attention to the Fayum, a sprawling oasis region 150 miles south of Alexandria. Excavating a vast cemetery from the first and second centuries A.D.,...
- Exhibition: The Fayum Mummy Portraits Of Egypt
Gadling (Sean McLachlan) The pyramids, Tutankhamen's gold, the massive temples of Luxor and Karnak. . .the civilization of ancient Egypt has left us an incredible legacy, yet of all of these impressive monuments and treasures none has a more personal...
- Faiyum Portraits
nunc stans My daily photo slot yesterday showed five of the Hawara portraits from the Faiyum. Quite coincidentally I stumbled across this blog which has a You Tube video showing some more of the Faiyum portraits. The video simply shows a large number...
- Ancient Art Influences Modern Icons
http://tinyurl.com/824zp "The famous Faiyum portraits are named after a fertile land in Roman Egypt peopled, during the first three centuries AD by a diverse community of Greeks, Romans, Syrians, Libyans, Nubians and Jews. One of the customs of those...
- Faiyum Portraits On Display
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o090625n.htm"Dr. Zahi Hawwas has opened an exhibition in the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square showing a number of Fayyoum portraits. The exhibition is set to go on display for two months. It includes 12 portraits and...