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Influence Through the Ages: The Fayum Mummy Portraits

The art of encaustic painting, a technique essential to a vast amount of art in Europe during the dark ages, High Medieval periods, the Renaissance, and especially influential to Russian Iconography, traces its roots through Byzantine art and back into classical antiquity…arriving at the Fayum Mummy Portraits dating from the first century B.C.E.

Most of these near 1,000 portraits are attached to the preserved body of the person depicted. The methods used to create these works can be traced to artistic styles kept alive from Hellenistic Greece to Coptic Egyptian tradition, traveling up into Europe via Italy and Greece to be regenerated at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance with the resurrection of Classical values and virtues.

The connections of these encaustic portraits on wooden panels to Russian Medieval Religious Icons are both stylistic and historical. Many Christian treasures were carried from their North African and Middle Eastern origins and hidden in Northern Europe and Russia for safekeeping; many of the Black Madonnas of Europe owe their existence to these flights from war-torn areas.

These mummy portraits have immense art-historical importance because very few mobile pieces of art like these ancient panel paintings survive. Some aspects of the mummy portraits, especially their frontal perspective and their concentration on key facial features, strongly resemble later icon painting.

The earliest portraits of the Virgin Mary, attributed to Saint Luke and said to have been “painted from life", also indicate influence in composition, style, and materials.

Some art historians name the Fayum portraits “The Earliest Modernist Paintings". Many Medieval and Renaissance schools of painting were influenced by these ancient techniques. Romanesque to Medieval religious Italian art shows this influence in the colors and methods used for religious iconography:

And the realism and brushstrokes are echoed in Early Flemish and Netherlandish religious paintings as well.

Although Northern European art after the fall of the Roman empire shifted sharply to stylized form and symbolic rather than representational images, the soft realism and warm individuality of the Fayum portraits was kept alive in pockets of influence to be reborn in the High Medieval Period and Renaissance in Northern Europe.

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My specialty is watercolors and ink, but I can use marker, colored pencils, and some other stuff I’m sure I’m forgetting. I even repaint action figures.

 Please note this sale does not apply to my Cardassia/Deep Space Nine shirts. Though if you want one of those AND a commission, I’ll combine the shipping. 

My commission page needs to be streamlined, but it does contain important info about rights to images and process to follow and I would like you to read it, disregarding the pricing info for the sake of this sale.  

Main at-a-glance points are as follows:

• Prices are in US dollars and assume a 8.5 by 11 inch size.
• These are estimates, though your piece should not deviate from these dramatically.  
• Payment by PayPal
• Digital or Traditional but you will pay shipping for traditional if you want the original
• Average turnaround is two to three weeks, depending on my schedule. Let me know in advance if you need something by a certain date. 
• Restrictions are:  I will not draw porn, I will not promote hate or intolerance on any level, I will not objectify women, I will not draw Sherl0ck or H0mestuck.   I reserve the right to turn down anything based on content obligations. 

This does not include any commissions in place before I made this post.

If you’re interested, send an email to ladyyatexel at gmail dot com and we will talk!  I don’t know how long this sale will be going on, since I don’t know how long I’ll be jobless, but until I get one, you will get this sale rate!