Fayum mummy portraits
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Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic encaustic portrait typically painted on wooden boards attached to the mummies of upper class individuals living in Egypt during the
Mummy portrait of a young woman, Antinoöpolis, Middle Egypt, 2nd century, Louvre, Paris.
This heavily gilt portrait was found in Antinoöpolis in winter 1905/06 by French Archaeologist Alfred Gayet and sold to the Egyptian Museum of Berlin in 1907.
Mummy portrait of a man from Fayum. Encaustic on limewood, AD 80–100. British Museum
Mummy portrait of a woman from Fayum, Hawara, modern-day Egypt. Encaustic on wood, AD 300–325. British Museum
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
Fayum mummy portraits
…images clearly derive more from Greco-Roman artistic traditions than Egyptian ones. Two groups of portraits can be distinguished by technique: one of encaustic (wax) paintings, the other in tempera. The former are usually of higher quality. About 900 mummy portraits are known at present. The majority were found…
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.