A group of painted funerary monuments from Hellenistic Alexandria in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Examination and scientific analysis have elucidated the well-preserved figural painting on a collection of limestone funerary stelai and loculus slabs from Alexandria, Egypt, dating from the late 4th to 3rd centuries B.C. This paper presents new information about the preparation, design, and techniq...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:techne_2238 https://doi.org/10.4000/techne.2238 urn:doi:10.4000/techne.2238 en https://journals.openedition.org/techne/2238 2020-09-10T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/l8hs https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ A group of painted funerary monuments from Hellenistic Alexandria in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Technè C2RMF info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2750-6185 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1254-7867 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/techne Abramitis, Dorothy H. Abbe, Mark B. painting pigment limestone Egypt Greek Hellenistic Alexandria Ptolemaic stelai loculus slabs mimetite pigment Égypte calcaire peinture grecque hellénistique Alexandrie ptolémaïque stèle plaque de loculus mimétite Examination and scientific analysis have elucidated the well-preserved figural painting on a collection of limestone funerary stelai and loculus slabs from Alexandria, Egypt, dating from the late 4th to 3rd centuries B.C. This paper presents new information about the preparation, design, and technique of these paintings, which display a lead white ground preparation, both incised and black preliminary drawing, and a masterful elaborate multi-layered painting process to build up color. The paintings’ generally bright colorful palette employs a wide range of pigments attested elsewhere in the classical Greek palette, and features, notably, the extensive use of mimetite, a geologically rare yellow lead arsenate mineral, uncommon in Greek and Roman painting and unknown in earlier Pharaonic painting traditions. Examen et analyses scientifiques ont permis de faire la lumière sur les peintures figurées, remarquablement conservées, qui ornent un ensemble de stèles et de plaques de loculus funéraires alexandrines en pierre calcaire, exécutées entre la fin du ive siècle et le iiie siècle avant J.-C. La présente étude apporte de nouvelles informations sur la préparation, la conception et la technique de ces peintures, où l’on observe une couche d’apprêt en blanc de plomb, un tracé préliminaire alliant incision et dessin au trait noir, et un jeu savant de couleurs montées par superposition de couches picturales. La palette généralement vive comprend un large éventail de pigments attestés ailleurs pendant la période classique ; on y remarque l’emploi de mimétite, un arséniate de plomb jaune qui est un minéral rare, peu employé dans la peinture grecque et romaine, et inconnu dans les traditions pharaoniques antérieures. |
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painting pigment limestone Egypt Greek Hellenistic Alexandria Ptolemaic stelai loculus slabs mimetite pigment Égypte calcaire peinture grecque hellénistique Alexandrie ptolémaïque stèle plaque de loculus mimétite |
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painting pigment limestone Egypt Greek Hellenistic Alexandria Ptolemaic stelai loculus slabs mimetite pigment Égypte calcaire peinture grecque hellénistique Alexandrie ptolémaïque stèle plaque de loculus mimétite Abramitis, Dorothy H. Abbe, Mark B. A group of painted funerary monuments from Hellenistic Alexandria in the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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Examination and scientific analysis have elucidated the well-preserved figural painting on a collection of limestone funerary stelai and loculus slabs from Alexandria, Egypt, dating from the late 4th to 3rd centuries B.C. This paper presents new information about the preparation, design, and technique of these paintings, which display a lead white ground preparation, both incised and black preliminary drawing, and a masterful elaborate multi-layered painting process to build up color. The paintings’ generally bright colorful palette employs a wide range of pigments attested elsewhere in the classical Greek palette, and features, notably, the extensive use of mimetite, a geologically rare yellow lead arsenate mineral, uncommon in Greek and Roman painting and unknown in earlier Pharaonic painting traditions. |
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Abramitis, Dorothy H. Abbe, Mark B. |
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Abramitis, Dorothy H. Abbe, Mark B. |
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Abramitis, Dorothy H. |
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A group of painted funerary monuments from Hellenistic Alexandria in the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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A group of painted funerary monuments from Hellenistic Alexandria in the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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A group of painted funerary monuments from Hellenistic Alexandria in the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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A group of painted funerary monuments from Hellenistic Alexandria in the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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A group of painted funerary monuments from Hellenistic Alexandria in the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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group of painted funerary monuments from hellenistic alexandria in the metropolitan museum of art |
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