Fayum Mummy Portrait Replica

Here is the presentation about the Fayum Mummy Portraits as a virtual exhibit for my Advanced Painting class along the replica paintings of it which were sourced from museums such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY and the Getty Villa in Malibu, CA.
The series of paintings was to recreate the Fayum mummy portraits from Roman Egypt that occurred after the conquest of Egypt in the wake of the deaths of Mark Antony and Cleopatra which occurred around 30 B.C.E.
Fayum mummy portraits were painted after the battle of Atticum in 30 B.C.E. Around this time, Egypt was annexed as a Roman province as a result of Mark Antony losing the war and led to his tragic suicide. Cleopatra feared for her life in which she will be paraded down in the triumph as a prisoner of war and a servant came and brought a basket with fruit in which a apse which was a poisonous snake that struck her breast and bit her that led to her tragic death. Next, Octavian’s military forces conquered Egypt and became a Roman province. Later on, Octavian was given the new name Augustus which meant the Revered One by the Senate and it led to the foundation of the Roman Empire which he became their first Emperor that entered a new era of Peace and Prosperity called The Pax Romana, The Roman Peace in around 27 B.C.E.
The Rules for the Fayum mummy portraits are
Key Points
They are naturalistic portrait paintings that were made on wooden board which was reserved for upper class mummies in Roman Egypt.

It became a new trend and fad for Funerary Art that was contrasted to the original Egyptian mummies from the Pharaonic age, prior to Greek settlement during the conquests of Alexander the Great.

It was secured in linen wrappings and placed over the mummy’s face and it was a wide range of painterly expertise that created a life like appearance of the deceased.

Secondly, there was knowledge in anatomical structure skilled modeling of the form

Use of lighting three-dimensional parents rendered and tempura on encaustic wood and beeswax.

Gold leaf was used to represent jewelry and personal adornments such as diadems, rings, gemstone, earrings, and necklaces.

The style would be in the original Romano Egyptian naturalistic Art in which it was painted with organic natural pigments which was rendered in tempura in order to give it a gloss like effect and lifelike appearance of the deceased which would bring remembrances to the surviving family members.

Fixed view of Subject: Portraits are in the original replica that are on canvas instead of wooden panels such as the size of “9 x 12”.
The painting times took of 2 hours each with a break in between and another 2 hours which will result in 4 hours of the duration.

It was painted in my bedroom on a drawing board between 2:00 to 9:00 p.m.

The somber and naturalistic palette such as
Lamp Black
Olive Green
Raw Umber
Light Brown,
Beige
Metallic Bronze
Dark Grey
Tyrian Purple
Grayish Brown
Pale Oyster
Old Mauve
Brown Grey
Sandy Brown

Fact: Tyrian purple was extracted from the hypothetical gland of the murex snail that took 45 kilograms to produce a single gram of pure color extra and it’s a laborious process which can be risk taking.
In order to recreate the encaustic gloss like effect, I have to use linseed oil medium to use in order to mix the water mixable oil paint as a special effect that is similar to beeswax.