A rare double-sided mummy portrait showing 2 views of the same woman, c.100–130 AD; from Fayum, Egypt, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.pic.twitter.com/XXRSqovqO9
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A rare double-sided mummy portrait showing 2 views of the same woman, c.100–130 AD; from Fayum, Egypt, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.pic.twitter.com/XXRSqovqO9
A Graeco-Egyptian style pottery mummy mask of c.AD 200, in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/AUfjZH2RCV
Must have been stunning when fully painted.
Indeed!
Wasn't Wilde meant to have seen Petrie's exhibition of portraits before writing Dorian Gray? This lady is at Manchester Museum.pic.twitter.com/VahxvncSnd
Didn't know that, most interesting!
Should source really. Manchester Museum had a wonderful exhibition of the portraits a few years back, and the link was made at that.
The young man looks as if he could have just walked in from the street for his portrait, he looks very modern :)
Absolutely, really quite arresting aren't they!?
Yes very much so!
In the painting of a young man his pupils have reflections which when sculpted (unpainted or stripped of paint) would look like apples.pic.twitter.com/Dc6Fu9XIaL
like faces you'd see walking down the streets of Cairo today.
The one on the left is Bruno Toniolli, how old is he?
#mustachegoals on the chap. Crikey.
Beautiful paintings. Do you know what materials they used to create them? So vivid!
The young man portrait is an incredibly modern work of art. Wonderful!
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