The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Funerary Panel of a Man
about 138–92 CE
Overall: 24.8 x 19 cm (9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1971.135
Location: 003 Special Exhibition Hall
Description
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.- Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1971." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 1 (1972). Referenced pp.40, No. 2, www.jstor.orgCooney, John D. "Portraits from Roman Egypt." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 2 (Feb. 1972). pp. 52-53, fig. 3 www.jstor.orgParlasca, Klaus. Ritratti di mummie. Roma: Erma di Bretschneider, 1977. pp, 33. no. 265, pl. 64. fig. 1Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 Reproduced: p. 507; Mentioned: p. 507-8
- Africa & Byzantium. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (co-organizer) (April 14-July 21, 2024).CMA 1972, no. 2Year in Review: 1971. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972).
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