The 26 Artworks of media Encaustic and containing the word judith cotton, encaustic, 2000

The young man in this Romano-Egyptian mummy portrait turns his head slightly to his left, thoughtfully gazing into the distance. His short hair and faint moustache suggest that the portrait was painted in the period from about A.D. 100 to 125, when these fashions were in style. Although scholars are...

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This expressive portrait shows a wealthy young woman who lived and died in Egypt during the Roman period. The wooden panel comes from a linen-wrapped mummy, combining the ancient Egyptian tradition for mummification with a Roman tradition of representing the deceased. The woman herself was probably ...

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In Roman Egypt (30 BCE-324 CE), artists adapted naturalistic painting styles to the ancient custom of making portrait masks for mummies. The portraits were often painted while the subject was in the prime of life and were hung in the home until the person/

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The young man in this Romano-Egyptian mummy portrait turns his head slightly to his left, thoughtfully gazing into the distance. His short hair and faint moustache suggest that the portrait was painted in the period from about A.D. 100 to 125, when these fashions were in style. Although scholars are...

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This charming bust of a smiling young woman is painted on wood in the technique of wax, or encaustic (from Greek enkaiein, to burn in). The coloured pigments are mixed with liquid wax and applied with a brush while still hot to cover a thin ground coat. While the medium is still warm, a spatula-like...

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