The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt.
by Doxiadis, Euphrosyne
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- ISBN 10
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London: Thames & Hudson, 1995. 256pp with 60 colour plates, 64 colour and 26 monochrome illustrations. Hardback 33x25cms. ISBN: 0500237131. Study of over 200 painted Fayum portraits produced during the first three centuries AD to preserve the memory of people who had died. The people and paintings are set in their cultural, religious and artistic context, and the painting techniques, styles used and the relationship to Byzantine icon-painting are discussed. With bibliography, glossary, index. Text in English.
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- Title
- The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt.
- Author
- Doxiadis, Euphrosyne
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0500237131
- ISBN 13
- 9780500237137
- Publisher
- London: Thames & Hudson, 1995.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1996
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