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| Keywords: Egyptian - Mummy Portrait of a Bearded Man - Walters 326.jpg Prior to the Roman Period the likeness of the deceased on the mummy mask coffin and sarcophagus was an idealized representation that conformed to the general style of the period With the arrival of Roman rule in Egypt mummy portraits became increasingly naturalistic The new style of portraiture was sometimes rendered in two-dimensional paintings on a wood panel or on linen The panel portraits were made in either tempera paint or in encaustic like this example Encaustic painting is a technique in which the pigment is dissolved in wax before it is applied to the surface ca AD 170-180 Roman Imperial encaustic wood cm 40 5 20 accession number 32 6 7962 Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown as from Fayum Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1912 Focus on Art The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1983 Beyond the Pharaohs Egypt and the Copts in the Second to Seventh Centuries A D Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design Providence; The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1989 Transitions to Christianity Alexander S Onassis Public Benefit Foundation USA New York 2011-2012 place of origin er-Rubayat in Faiyum Walters Art Museum license 2D Art of Roman Egypt in the Walters Art Museum Fayum mummy portraits Paintings in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
