Encaustic painting
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Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, is a form of painting that involves a heated wax medium to which colored pigments have been added. The molten mix is applied to a surface—usually pr
A 6th-century encaustic icon from Saint Catherine's Monastery, Egypt, depicting Peter the Apostle
Fayum mummy portrait
The Mummy of Demetrios, 95–100 C.E.,11.600a-b, Brooklyn Museum
A modern-day encaustic painting using wax crayons, Martina Loos, 2009.
Encaustic tile
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Encaustic or inlaid tiles are ceramic tiles in which the pattern or figure on the surface is not a product of the glaze but of different colors of clay. They are usually of two colours but a tile may
Encaustic painting
…light second firing. Usually the vessel was black and painted in the red of red-figure painting. The technique was copied by other British potteries. Encaustic tiles are not painted at all, but effectively inlaid with contrasting colours of clay for a polychrome pattern. Encaustic painting was developed by the ancient…
Medieval encaustic tiles at Cleeve Abbey, England
Minton encaustic tiles awaiting installation at the United States Capitol.
Victorian English Gothic Revival tiles