Name: A Silent Apostrophe: The Fayum Portraits (en Inglés)
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Author: Bailly, Jean-Christophe; Martin, Samuel E.
ISBN: 9781945861376

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A Silent Apostrophe: The Fayum Portraits (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Zone Books

Autor

Bailly, Jean-Christophe; Martin, Samuel E.

Año

2026

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

160

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.90 x 15.20 cm

ISBN13

9781945861376

A Silent Apostrophe: The Fayum Portraits (en Inglés)

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An exquisite meditation on the mysterious Fayum portraits Jean-Christophe Bailly's A Silent Apostrophe is a lyrical interdisciplinary study of the Fayum mummy portraits from Roman Egypt. This "truly remarkable essay," in the words of art critic John Berger, explores the ongoing fascination with these nearly 2000-year-old images and, in so doing, tells an origin story of portraiture as we know it today. Drawing on a wealth of historical materials, Bailly shows how the Fayum portraits, painted during the first three centuries of the Common Era, preserve certain aspects of ancient Egyptian funerary tradition while bringing to full fruition a new form of Greco-Roman mimetic practice. With over sixty beautifully reproduced images, the reader will experience an unforgettable face-to-face encounter with the Fayum mummies. Although the Fayum portraits are housed in museums throughout the world, their enigma still remains intact. From the realm of death into which they have passed, they gaze at us with eyes wide open, seemingly alive and yet entirely mysterious and other, transported from a long-vanished world. Through Bailly's artful prose and analysis, this silent population comes to life and into our lives, speaking to us in a series of epiphanies. The history of portraiture-and its connection to death-is here written from an entirely new perspective.