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Title: Ancient Faces : Mummy Portraits in Roman Egypt by Susan Walker, N.Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, Morris Bierbrier, British Museum ISBN: 0-415-92745-5 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: excellent exhibition catalog
Comment: A companion to an exhibition taking place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, this book presents colored panel and shroud portraits of Roman Egypt. Contributors, including R. Bagnall, M. Bierbrier, K. Gschwantler, J. Taylor and S. Walker, give a concise acccount of mummy portraits and their discovery, as well as the Fayum and its people. Extensively illustrated in color, this is a useful book covering a little-known subject. An excellent reference for everyone.
Rating: 4
Summary: Incredible documentation of topic,plates not true to color
Comment: This exhibition is a facinating personal document of the Roman mummy portraits and their Egyptian and greek influenced hybrid artworks. The incredible freshness of the works themselves is lost in the printing here. Perhaps the encaustic is difficult to photograph? Anyway the topic and text is wonderful, but the images pale next to the 1st person experience of these vital energizing works of the Roman era.A good book to own, if you saw the show it's better.
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Title: Mysterious Fayum Portraits by Euphrosyne Doxiadis ISBN: 0810933314 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 15 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $85.00 |
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