The Baker and his wife?
Lauri Levanto
I have searched all art history books in my own and the local library
without finding a picture.
I have gooogled it, too.
I do not really need the picture, though it would be nice to see.
What I need is the timing of the work.
My impression is that it is not really old, from the era of Pharaos,
but I need to know if it preceeds hellenistic art.
Does anyone have a hint?
-lauri
Thur
"Lauri Levanto" <laur...@dnainternet.fi> wrote in message
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It's a Pompeiian Fresco Circa AD. 55
Held at National Archeological Museum Naples.
I quote from "Essential History of Art" ISBN 0-75253-696-6 Hardback
and ISBN 0-75256-604-0 Paperback
Also I have a guide book to Pompeii and it lists the work as
a portrait of Paquius Proculus and his wife.
There is also an Egyptian Ptolemaic tomb painting on wood ,
of similar looks, which you may be confusing it with. ?
Thur
Lauri Levanto
it was the Egyptian piece I was after!
Now I have to do my home work,
and find out the timing "Ptolemaic".
I have seen a picture of it a couple of years ago,
and now when you say it I believe it was on wood.
My recollection is that it was a tomb painting,
inside the coffin lid? or something like that.
-lauri
Thur
> Thanks Thor,
> it was the Egyptian piece I was after!
>
> Now I have to do my home work,
> and find out the timing "Ptolemaic".
>
> I have seen a picture of it a couple of years ago,
> and now when you say it I believe it was on wood.
> My recollection is that it was a tomb painting,
> inside the coffin lid? or something like that.
>
> -lauri
>
I had thought it was in Gombritch, but no.
Some general work on Egyptology I had but lent
out 10 years ago, I bet.
I remember the comments about it being a funerary
work, I think on wood, and the bets are it was
in encaustic. I had turned up some single portraits
on the period on the net, but failed to unearth the
one you are after.
Perhaps it is stored in the Cairo museum.
I could not find a way of viewing even a catalogue of
their works.
Other possibles are Louvre and London for
a start.
--
Thur
Lauri Levanto
for the effort you have put in my question.
I have searched half a dozed art history books
and a few egyptian art books.
Have not yet solved the term Ptolemaic,
but it seems to refer to a quite late period.
I am interested in it, because at first sight I guessed it was
Etruskian. The same fidelity in facial expression is on some
hellenistic mosaics and in Roman busts.
-lauri