Egypt
- 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...
- Exhibition: Unpublished Faiyum Portraits In Madrid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...
- Digital Information And Communication Technology Used In New Exhibition Organized By The Louvre
Art Daily The "Louvre - DNP Museum Lab" is a joint project, begun by the Musée du Louvre and Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) in 2006, which seeks to offer new approaches to artworks. Three portraits of women from Roman-Egyptian antiquity (2nd century A.D.)...
- Living Images Book Launch - Comment On Phrenology
Otralala The authors of “Living images – Egyptian funerary portraits in the Petrie Museum” each spoke, giving context to the writing of the book and to the portraits themselves. The portraits were discovered while Flinders Petrie was looking for...
- Ahmed Nawwar Exhibition Revisits Faiyum Portraits
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5320 "Last month, Nawwar exhibited works that seem to be the result of thousands of years of artistic experience. In his exhibition, Soul of Civilisation, held at the Zamalek Gallery, Nawwar brings the...
Egypt
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 7 busts considered of major significance". The portraits are not exclusively from the Faiyum - but they are known as the Faiyoum portraits because that is where the first ones were found.
- 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...
- Exhibition: Unpublished Faiyum Portraits In Madrid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...
- Digital Information And Communication Technology Used In New Exhibition Organized By The Louvre
Art Daily The "Louvre - DNP Museum Lab" is a joint project, begun by the Musée du Louvre and Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) in 2006, which seeks to offer new approaches to artworks. Three portraits of women from Roman-Egyptian antiquity (2nd century A.D.)...
- Living Images Book Launch - Comment On Phrenology
Otralala The authors of “Living images – Egyptian funerary portraits in the Petrie Museum” each spoke, giving context to the writing of the book and to the portraits themselves. The portraits were discovered while Flinders Petrie was looking for...
- Ahmed Nawwar Exhibition Revisits Faiyum Portraits
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5320 "Last month, Nawwar exhibited works that seem to be the result of thousands of years of artistic experience. In his exhibition, Soul of Civilisation, held at the Zamalek Gallery, Nawwar brings the...