Fayum portraits: documentation and scientific analyses of mummy portraits belonging to Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (original) (raw)

2000

Abstract

Ancient artist's materials in general and beeswax in particular are at focus in the present cases study. The encaustic painting techniques used for some Fayum portraits, painted by artists during the Roman imperial period in Egypt and now in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, have been investigated. Observations of all the portraits in the collection have been made, with the main objectives to define their state of preservation, observed as the material stability of the paintings, to make a definition of material used, further to make an attempt at defining the provenenca of the paintings, and to suggest a new dating but also to describes the cultural contezt in which these portraits were produced. The initial investigation and the stylictic analyses include 27 objects, i.e. the total number of objects of this kind in the museum. Eight of the pictures have been studied and analysed in depth.

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