
Often very realistic and I think a bit of precursor to a more stylistic Christian Orthodox Iconography.
( , Mon 28 Jun 2010, 16:20, Reply)

...except for being entirely in profile and having no sense of perspective or scale?
( , Mon 28 Jun 2010, 16:25, Reply)

These are odd portraits. I'm not sure if they were done before or after the Greeks took over Egypt, however.
( , Mon 28 Jun 2010, 16:46, Reply)

Sorry - I thought when you said tomb painting you meant the wall paintings. Yeah, the Mummy portraits are quite cool.
( , Mon 28 Jun 2010, 16:52, Reply)

I studied them for a year at Foundation along with other iconographic bollocks. I guess inevitably when it comes to a descriptive short hand I've managed to remember them as "Pass us those pictures of the Egyptian Tomb Paintings, would you dear?"
( , Mon 28 Jun 2010, 16:55, Reply)

never seen any of those before, or maybe I have but not known what they were
( , Mon 28 Jun 2010, 17:37, Reply)