Mummy portraits of Roman Egypt : emerging research from the APPEAR Project
Title:
Mummy portraits of Roman Egypt : emerging research from the APPEAR Project
Author:
APPEAR (Project), author.
ISBN:
9781606066546
Corporate Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Los Angeles, California : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2020.
Physical Description:
x, 185 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
General Note:
| Proceedings of a conference held at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa, Malibu, on May 17 and 18, 2018. |
| "Once interred with mummified remains, nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums and galleries around the world, bringing viewers face-to-face with people who lived two thousand years ago. Until recently, few of these lifelike paintings had undergone in-depth study to determine how they were made, and by whom. An international collaboration known as APPEAR (Ancient Panel Paintings : Examination, Analysis, and Research) was launched in 2013 to promote the study of these remarkable objects and to gather scientific and historical findings into a shared database. The first phase of the project was marked with a two-day conference at the Getty Villa. Conservators, scientists, and curators presented new research on topics such as provenance and collecting ; comparisons of works across institutions ; and scientific studies of pigments, binders, and supports. The papers and poster presentations from the conference are collected in this publication, which offers the most cutting-edge information available about these fascinating remnants of the ancient world."--taken from back cover. |
Contents:
Foreword / Timothy Potts -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Marie Svoboda, Caroline R. Cartwright, and Susan Walker -- Challenges in the Characterization and Categorization of Binding Media in Mummy Portraits / Ken Sutherland, Rachel C. Sabino, and Federica Pozzi -- Understanding Wood Choices for Ancient Panel Painting and Mummy Portraits in the APPEAR Project through Scanning Electron Microscopy / Caroline R. Cartwright -- The Matter of Madder in the Ancient World / Richard Newman and Glenn Alan Gates -- Green Pigments : Exploring Changes in the Egyptian Color Palette through the Technical Study of Roman-Period Mummy Shrouds / Caroline Roberts -- Egyptian Blue in Romano-Egyptian Mummy Portraits / Gabrielle Thiboutot -- Multispectral Imaging Techniques Applied to the Study of Romano-Egyptian Funerary Portraits at the British Museum / Joanne Dyer and Nicola Newman -- Evaluating Multiband Reflectance Image Subtraction for the Characterization of Indigo in Romano-Egyptian Funerary Portraits / Lauren Bradley, Jessica Ford, Dawn Kriss, Victoria Schussler, Federica Pozzi, Elena Basso, and Lisa Bruno -- Invisible Brushstrokes Revealed : Technical Imaging and Research of Romano-Egyptian Mummy Portraits / Evelyn (Eve) Mayberger, Jessica Arista, Marie Svoboda, and Molly Gleeson -- Framing the Heron Panel : Iconographic and Technical Comparanda / Georgina E. Borromeo, Ingrid A. Neuman, Scott Collins, Catherine Cooper, Derek Merck, and David Murray -- A Study of the Relative Locations of Facial Features within Mummy Portraits / Jevon Thistlewood, Olivia Dill, Marc S. Walton, and Andrew Shortland -- From All Sides : The APPEAR Project and Mummy Portrait Provenance / Judith Barr -- Painted Mummy Portraits in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest / Kata Endreffy and Árpád M. Nagy -- Scrutinizing "Sarapon" : Investigating a Mummy Portrait of a Young Man in the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University / Renée Stein and Lorelei H. Corcoran -- Defining a Romano-Egyptian Painting Workshop at Tebtunis / Jane L. Williams, Caroline R. Cartwright, and Marc S. Walton -- Nondestructive Studies of Ancient Pigments on Romano-Egyptian Funerary Portraits of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna / Bettina Vak, Roberta Iannaccone, and Katharina Uhlir -- Painted Roman Wood Shields from Dura-Europos / Anne Gunnison, Irma Passeri, Erin Mysak, and Lisa Brody -- Characterization of Binding Media in Romano-Egyptian Funerary Portraits / Joy Mazurek -- Binding Media and Coatings : Mummy Portraits in the National Museum of Denmark and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek / Lin Rosa Spaabœk and Joy Mazurek -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- APPEAR Participants -- Contributors.
Abstract:
"This publication gathers papers and posters from a 2018 conference organized as part of the APPEAR (Ancient Panel Paintings : Examination, Analysis, and Research) initiative, an international collaboration that promotes the study of funerary portraits from Roman Egypt."-- Provided by publisher.
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Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-176).
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