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Fayum portrait of a young boy with a wreath from gold imitation leaf

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Fayum reproduction

Πορτραίτο νεαρό αγόρι με στεφάνι από φύλλο ημίχρυσου.

Handmade painting, made from artist Mairi Anni

Dimensions 41 x 22

615.00

In stock (can be backordered)

Description

Fayum

Fayum portraits (Fayum is a region in Egypt) are painted portraits made from the 1st to the 3rd century A.D and were discovered in an excavation near the Nile in the 20th century. They are made either with tempera or the encaustic technique (melted wax with colored pigments).

Their painting style is the naturalistic ancient Greek and it derives from Apelli (personal painter of the Great Alexander).

Those portraits, although they were made to cover the face of bodies that were mummified for burial, (origin of the tradition of pictures on graves), also decorated the houses of the people shown, during their lives.

Egyptians believed that preserving the painting would immortalize the soul of the deceased.

The 900 Fayum portraits were found and are now displaced in all the great museums of the world, being the precursor of Byzantine art.