Fayum mummy portraits — Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits (also Faiyum mummy portraits) is the modern term for a type of realistic painted portraits on wooden boards attached to mummies from Roman Egypt. They belong to the tradition of panel painting, one of the… … Wikipedia
Portrait painting — See Portrait for more about the general topic of portraits. Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to depict the visual appearance of the subject. Beside human beings, animals, pets and even inanimate objects can be chosen… … Wikipedia
Fayum portraits — A Romano Egyptian portrait painted with encaustic on cartonnage, a linen mummy case, or a wood panel. For thousands of years Egyptian religious beliefs called for funerary portraits; in Pharaonic times these representations were very formulaic … Glossary of Art Terms
Portrait — A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this… … Wikipedia
Fayum — Gouvernorat du Fayoum Article de la série Lieux égyptiens Lieux Nomes / Villes Monuments / Temples Région Basse Égypte / Moyenne Égypte Haute Égypte / Nubie … Wikipédia en Français
Coffin portrait — of Jan Gniewosz, c. 1700, oil on tin plate. Signature: I.[an] G.[niewosz] N.[a] O.[oleksowie] K.[asztelan] C.[zchowski] English: Jan Gniewosz [lord] of Oleksów, castellan of Czchów[1 … Wikipedia
art and architecture, Egyptian — Introduction the ancient architectural monuments, sculptures, paintings, and decorative crafts produced mainly during the dynastic periods of the first three millennia BC in the Nile valley regions of Egypt and Nubia. The course of art in… … Universalium
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Cuba) — Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba Forma, Espacio y Luz … Wikipedia Español
Vladimir Golenishchev — Vladimir Semënovič Goleniščev (Владимир Семёнович Голенищев; 30 January 1856 5 August 1947) was one of the first and most accomplished Russian Egyptologists. Goleniščev came from an old noble family, of which Field Marshal Kutuzov was also a… … Wikipedia
Samson and Delilah (painting) — Infobox Painting title=Samson and Delilah artist=Peter Paul Rubens year=1609 1610 type=Oil on canvas height=185 width=205 museum=National Gallery (London) Samson and Delilah is a painting by the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577… … Wikipedia
