Book: Ancient Fayum Portraits from Roman Egypt

"Fayum Portraits"

By Berenice Geoffrey-Schneiter.
Published in New York by Assouline Publishing in 2004.

“Miraculously preserved by the dry sands of the Egyptian desert, some thousand 1st-4th century painted portraits—called "Fayum" after the region they were found in—have fascinated artists and archaeologists for their strange presence. Many are idealized images with dramatic, dark-eyed gazes, yet others are startlingly realistic, capturing the character of individuals from millennia ago. In all, a portrait of a province, which became Roman, comes alive. This book tries to pierce the secret of these fragments of faces. Who were the authors of these portraits, whose modernity of execution does not cease to surprise us? What society was sufficiently rich and proud to exhibit itself thus after death?”

Hardcover. 6.5”x8.5”, 79 pages, color illustrations, dust jacket.
New condition.

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