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I paint for myself. I dont know how to do anything
else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and
occupy myself.

~ Francis Bacon
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Fayum Mummy Portraits
Faiyum Basin, Egypt, ca. 100 BC/300 AD
Mummy Portraits or Fayum Mummy Portraits (also
Faiyum Mummy Portraits) is the modern term
given to a type of realistic painted portraits on
wooden boards attached to mummies from the
Coptic period. They belong to the tradition of
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panel painting, one of the most highly regarded
forms of art in the Classical world. In fact, the
Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from
that tradition to have survived.
(thanx to Susanna Legrenzi for the image)
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Fayum Mummy Portraits
Mummy portraits have been found across Egypt,
but are most common in the Faiyum Basin,
particularly from Hawara and Antinoopolis, hence
the common name. "Faiyum Portraits" is generally
thought of as a stylistic, rather than a
Faiyum Basin, Egypt, ca. 100 BC/300 AD
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geographic, description. While painted Cartonnage
mummy cases date back to pharaonic times, the
Faiyum mummy portraits were an innovation
dating to the Coptic period on time of the Roman
occupation of Egypt.
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Fayum Mummy Portraits
The portraits covered the faces of bodies that
were mummified for burial. Extant examples
indicate that they were mounted into the bands of
cloth that were used to wrap the bodies. Almost
all have now been detached from the
Faiyum Basin, Egypt, ca. 100 BC/300 AD
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mummies. They usually depict a single person,
showing the head, or head and upper chest,
viewed frontally. In terms of artistic tradition, the
images clearly derive more from Graeco-Roman
traditions than Egyptian ones.
(thanx to Susanna Legrenzi for the image)
Francis Bacon, Study for Portrait
(Pope)
1957
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Francis Bacon, Head of Man
1950
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Francis Bacon, Francis Head VI
1949
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Francis Bacon, Study After
Velazquez's Portrait of Pope
Innocent X.
1953
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Ruth Handler, Barbie Doll, Mattel
1959/present
-Vintage # 3 Ponytail Barbie from 1960-
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Ruth Handler, Barbie Doll, Mattel
1959/present
-The #6 Titian hair Ponytail Barbie from 1963-
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Ruth Handler, Barbie Doll, Mattel
1959/present
-Vintage Swirl Ponytail Barbie from 1964-
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Ruth Handler, Barbie Doll, Mattel
1959/present
-The #1 vintage Ponytail Barbie issued in 1959-