The term Orientalist – meaning someone who is knowledgeable about Oriental people, their languages, history, customs, religions and literature – also applies to Western painters of the Oriental world.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Art and the Egyptian Women - 138-161 AD
Mummy Portrait of a Woman, from Fayum, Romano-Egyptian, 138-161 AD
(encaustic wax & amp; paint on wood), . / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA / Bridgeman Images.
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