Fayoum Portraits

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Fayoum Portraits


Faiyum portrait
 A term that embodies a set of realistic images of characters drawn on coffins of Egyptian mummies in Faiyum during the period of the Roman presence in Egypt.
Portrait from Fayoum.
Sample portraits of the Gillette mummy from Antinopolis. The gilded plate was found in the winter of 1905/06 and sold to the Egyptian Museum in Berlin in 1907.
Where they were drawn and painted on wooden boards in a classic way, which makes them one of the most beautiful drawings in international classical painting.
In fact, Fayum paintings are the only ones of their kind in the world. Fayum mummies were found in several parts of Egypt, but the Faiyum Basin region included most of the discoveries, which made them bear this name, specifically from the Hawara region to central Egypt, and it is likely that archaeologists have these funerary paintings. Egyptian made in the period of Roman Egypt. [1]
It is also believed that its beginnings date back to the first century AD, and it is not known when it stopped being made, but some recent studies indicate that its manufacture stopped in the third century AD, and the paintings are an early example of this. The genres of art that followed spread to the Western world through Byzantine art. And the art of Coptic icons in Egypt.
The paintings show a drawing of a person buried in the coffin, usually a large or well-known figure, and the drawings are more inclined to Greco-Roman art than what is known about ancient Egyptian art, such as the Egyptians. I was affected by this art just as societies were affected by other societies with the same occupation that it was in Egypt during this period.
There are now around 900 paintings that have been unearthed in the historic tombs of Fayoum. [2] Due to the arid and hot climate of the region, the paintings were so excellently preserved that the colors of many of them had not yet dried.