In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
A young man with a slight mustache and warm brown eyes looks at the viewer from this painting. The linen on which his image was rendered was a less popular alternative to wood. Its delicate surface was only workable with brushes, and not the flat metal tools used for details on wooden paintings. The rest of the cartonnage (body case) the man’s image was once part of was painted with ancient Egyptian religious imagery, like that of the young man Artemidorus. The blended decorative forms on the cartonnage show how distinctive Greco-Roman and Egyptian representational systems interacted in Roman-ruled Egypt.
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Funerary Portrait of a Woman
Funerary Portrait of a Young Girl
Wall Painting of a Male Saint
Wall painting fragment
Wall painting from Room F of the Villa of P. Fannius Synisto
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Fragment of wall painting: male head
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Wall painting fragment
Wall painting fragment from the peristyle of the Villa of P.